Routledge Helping Grieving People - When Tears Are Not Enough: A Handbook for Care Providers (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement)

Helping Grieving People – When Tears Are Not Enough is a handbook for care providers who provide service, support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. This book is also an excellent text for academic courses as well as for staff development training. The author addresses grief as it affects a variety of relationships and discusses different intervention and support strategies, always cognizant of individual and cultural differences in the expression and treatment of grief. Jeffreys has established a practical approach to preparing grief care providers through three basic tracks. The first track: Heart – calls for self-discovery, freeing oneself of accumulated loss in order to focus all attention on the griever. Second track: Head – emphasizes understanding the complex and dynamic phenomena of human grief. Third track: Hands – stresses the caregiver's actual intervention, and speaks to lay and professional levels of skill, as well as the various approaches for healing available. Accompanying these three motifs, the Handbook discusses the social and cultural contexts of grief as applied to various populations of grievers as well as the underlying psychological basis of human grief. Throughout the book, Jeffreys presents the role of the caregiver as an Exquisite Witness to the journey of grief and pain of bereaved family and friends, and also to the path taken by dying persons and their families. The second edition of Helping Grieving People remains true to the approach that has been so well received in the original volume. It includes updated research findings and addresses new information and developments in the field of loss, grief and bereavement. Review "Helping Grieving People: When Tears Are Not Enough is appropriate for anyone seeking specific and practical directions on change, loss, and grieving. Jeffery’s writing style and the book's organization facilitate intellectual, emotional, and experimental understanding of grief responses for all readers. It is an excellent choice for a textbook in gerontology and end-of-life courses. It is a must-have book for libraries." -Cheryl Osborne, California State University Sacramento "I found this book very positive, helpful and detailed. Information is subdivided into easy chunks with clear headings. There are helpful questions to ask oneself or others." –The Transactional Analyst "Making an excellent book even better, Jeffreys’ updated edition richly integrates professional and personal information to provide caregivers with the tools to best enable coping in the dying and bereaved.  A superb resource!"  -  Therese A. Rando, PhD, BCETS, BCBT, The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss, Rhode Island, USA "Shep Jeffreys provides a great tool for clinicians and a gift for individuals struggling with loss.  This book offers compassionate observations … as well as an integration of the most contemporary theories and research."  -  Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, Professor, The Graduate School, The College of New Rochelle, New York, USA; Senior Consultant, The Hospice Foundation of America "What makes this book unique is how Dr. Jeffreys blends his own experiences with the loss of his son into the fabric of what is a most useful book.  I highly recommend it."  -William Worden, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, California, USA "Shep Jeffreys models admirably his own ideal as an ‘exquisite witness care provider’ for grieving people, drawing upon lessons learned from his own loss experiences and experiences of grieving people in diverse life circumstances."  - Thomas Attig, PhD, Past President, Association for Death Education and Counseling "The additional research adds greater breadth and depth to an array of outstanding clinical and pastoral resources. [This is] a valuable clinical and pastoral reference."  -  Rev. C. Kevin Gillespie, SJ, PhD, Associate Professor, Loyola University of C