Trauern

This practical handbook for care and health professions describes how people experience and cope with loss. The experienced grief counselor and editor, along with her team of authors, compile everyday and empirical knowledge about grief, clarifying definitions, influencing factors, explanatory models, and forms of grief. They describe how grieving manifests in different phases of life among various groups of people, recount encounters with the bereaved, and outline the tasks that arise for caregivers in terms of counseling and support. Additionally, they explain the connections between grief and feelings of guilt, trauma, and comfort, and establish links between grief and spirituality.

The book presents concrete individual and institutional support offerings with evaluation criteria and demonstrates how to support, advise, and accompany the grieving, either individually or in groups, using music, writing, and conversations in direct or online contact. It is designed in full color throughout and illustrated with appealing drawings. The second, completely revised and expanded edition offers new insights on topics such as grief in caregiving, self-care for professional caregivers, grief and resilience, the grief of relatives of people with dementia, grief in assisted suicide, and grief in palliative geriatrics. It also includes critical reflections on contemporary and trendy movements that alter or culturally reshape grieving behavior and its expression.