GIFT OF TEARS

Abstract

Section One: Loss and Nurture. 1. Early attachments and loss. 2. The Nurturing environment: aspects of the counselling approach. Section Two: Death as a Particular Form of Loss. 3. Experience of death and bereavement. 4. The effect of external circumstances and internal factors on the experience of bereavement. 5. Historical change in attitudes to death and bereavement. 6. Cultural variety: shared elements. 7. Children's grief. 8. Personal and family experiences of loss. Section Three: Working With the Grieving. 9. Basic loss counselling skills: give sorrow words. 10. Further counselling skills. 11. Working with children. Section Four: Complicated Grief. 12. Understanding guilt and anger. 13. Working with guilt and anger in complicated grief. Section Five: Professional Implications. 14. Assessment and referral. 15. Supervision. 16. Training in loss counselling skills.