Helping Those Experiencing Loss

This book provides a guide for grieving youth and adults as well as extensive descriptive lists of recommended professional literature resources.Grief caused by loss is both a very common human experience and a highly individualized one. For example children experience a number of losses that are unique to their young agesuch as sibling and parent death adoption or divorceand should be given special consideration by professionals and parents helping them in these situations. For gay lesbian or cohabiting heterosexual couples that suffer the loss of a partner societal standards often deny the survivors in these relationships the right to grieve. Helping Those Experiencing Loss: A Guide to Grieving Resources is a book like no other supplying compassionate information for navigating the emotional distress that every man and woman will experience in their lifetime as well as a comprehensive guide to the literature of bereavement and grieving. It explains the grieving process interpreting the results of research on the topic in plain language and addressing specific groups: children young adults parents who have lost a child adults who have lost spouses and the aging population.