Helping Those in Grief: A Guide to Help You Care for Others

by H. Norman Wright

Overview

Many pastors and lay counselors have had minimal training in clinical methods of grief counseling. Helping Those in Grief is a biblical, practical guide to pastoral counseling written by one of the most respected Christian therapists of our time. This book is the next step after Wright's bestselling The New Guide to Crisis and Trauma Counseling. Wright brings more than forty years of clinical and classroom experience to this topic and shares real-life dialogues to demonstrate healthy, healing counseling sessions. Readers will learn how to counsel and coach both believers and nonbelievers who are grieving, how to walk alongside them, and how to help them find the path to complete restoration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441267702
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/05/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dr. H. Norman Wright is a grief and trauma therapist and a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist. He has been on the faculty at Biola University and Talbot School of Theology, where he taught graduate students in counseling and psychology for four decades. He has authored more than 80 books, including the bestsellers Always Daddy's Girl and Before You Say I Do. Norman and his wife, Tess, live in Bakersfield, California.
Dr. H. Norman Wright is a grief and trauma therapist and a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist. He has been on the faculty at Biola University and Talbot School of Theology, where he taught graduate students in counseling and psychology for four decades. He has authored more than 80 books, including Experiencing Grief, Before You Say I Do, and Communication: Key to Your Marriage. Norman and his wife, Tess, live in Bakersfield, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction Shattered Dreams: The Beginning of a Journey of Grief 5

1 One Stitch at a Time 11

2 Case Studies: What Would You Say or Do? 15

3 The World of Grief 39

4 Models of Grief 61

5 The Variations and Complications of Grief: Patterns of Grief 81

6 Handling "Relief" in Grief 109

7 Types of Death: Sudden and Anticipatory 125

8 When Grief Continues: Problems in Grieving and Recovery 149

9 How to Begin the Initial Session with a Grieving Person 165

10 The Family in Grief 179

11 Helping Grievers Move On in Life: Recovering 195

12 Grief Coaching 217

Appendix: Verbatim Transcripts of Actual Counseling Sessions 227

Endnotes 253