BookLiving with Grief® Series

Transforming Loss

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Hospice Foundation of America’s publication, Transforming Loss: Finding Potential for Growth, examines positive change by the bereaved in the aftermath of loss. 

Chapters examine the history and identification of transformative experiences in the wake of loss; explore how the nature of the loss, spirituality, age, and other factors affect growth; and provide other tools and interventive strategies for clinicians to support and encourage transformative growth in grieving clients. The book will also look at the role that support groups and self-help advice can play in this process, and shares some individuals’ stories of their own transformative experiences.
Chapter authors include Richard Tedeschi, Robert Neimeyer, Bonnie Carroll, Kelli Triplett, Gillian Mayersohn, and Kenneth Doka, as well as hospice and bereavement professionals Brandon Brewer and Patti Anewalt. This book is part of the Living with Grief® series and is appropriate for all professionals working in hospice and palliative care, counselors, clergy, funeral professionals, and any professional whose practice involves the bereaved.

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Table of Contents

PART I: UNDERSTANDING GROWTH AND GRIEF

Growth in Grief: A Historical Perspective

Kenneth J. Doka

Posttraumatic Growth: A Theoretical Overview

Richard G. Tedeschi

Bereaved Children and Adolescents: Growing with Grief

Gillian S. Mayersohn and Kelli N. Triplett

Voices: Growing Up with Grief

Evan Brohan

PART II: CONTEXT FOR GROWTH

Spiritual Opportunities for Growth in Loss through Spiritual Assessment

Allison Kestenbaum

Spirituality, Suffering, and Posttraumatic Growth

Kenneth J. Doka

Practice Tips: Extraordinary Experiences and Posttraumatic Growth

Kenneth J. Doka

Voices: Focus or Fold

Michon Lartigue

Growing through Grief: When Loss is Complicated

Robert A. Neimeyer, Jamison S. Bottomley, and Benjamin W. Bellet

PART III: ENABLING THE POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH IN GRIEF

Expert Companionship: A Framework for Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth

Bret A. Moore

Voices: Journeys of Loss, Hope, and Growth in Hospice

Brandon Brewer

Practice Tips: Helping Clients Choose Growth after Grief

Kenneth J. Doka

Growing Through Grief: The Role of Support Groups

Patti Anewalt

Voices: Transforming Life After Loss

Bonnie Carroll

Voices: Loud Noise, Gabriel

Elizabeth Uppman-Márquez

Index