What Forever Means After the Death of a Child

Transcending the Trauma, Living with the Loss
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-58391-080-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Series in Trauma and Loss

List of Tables. List of Figures. Series Editor's Foreword. Preface. Prologue. Acknowledgements. What It Means to Be a Parent After a Child Had Died. The "Mothers Now Childless" Study: Research Design and Findings. When a Child Dies, Does Grieving Ever End? One Death - A Thousand Strands of Pain: Finding the Meaning of Suffering. Bereaved Parents' Search for Understanding: The Paradox of Healing. Confronting a Spiritual Crisis: Where is God When Bad Things Happen? Confronting an Existential Crisis: Can Life Have Purpose Again? Deciding to Survive: Reaching Bottom - Climbing Up. Remembering With Love: Bereaved Parents as Biographer. Reaching Out to Help Others: Wounded Healers. Reinventing the Self: Parents Ask, "Who Are We Now?". The Legacy of Loss. References. Resources. Appendices. Index.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talbot, Kay

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
List of Figures
Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
Prologue
Acknowledgements
1. What It Means to Be a Parent After a Child Had Died
2. The "Mothers Now Childless" Study: Research Design and Findings
3. When a Child Dies, Does Grieving Ever End?
4. One Death-A Thousand Strands of Pain: Finding the Meaning of Suffering
5. Bereaved Parents' Search for Understanding: The Paradox of Healing
6. Confronting a Spiritual Crisis: Where is God When Bad Things Happen?
7. Confronting an Existential Crisis: Can Life Have Purpose Again?
8. Deciding to Survive: Reaching Bottom-Climbing Up
9. Remembering With Love: Bereaved Parents as Biographer
10. Reaching Out to Help Others: Wounded Healers
11. Reinventing the Self: Parents Ask, "Who Are We Now?"
12. The Legacy of Loss
References
Resources
Appendices
Index

Writing from the perspective of bereaved parent and psychotherapist, Kay Talbot describes the trauma and multiple secondary losses experienced by bereaved parents. ‘What Forever Means after the Death of a Child’ builds on empirical and qualitative research and gives examples of what helps and what hinders bereaved parents as their grief and loss evolve. Talbot encourages clinicians to help parents reframe their role as the child's biographer, through continuing rather than breaking the bond with their deceased child. Examples demonstrate how bereaved parents reconstruct personal identity, resolve spiritual and existential crises, reach out to help others and create productive futures that honor their children and provide new meaning to their lives.

Über Autor(innen)

Kay Talbot is a psychotherapist working with individuals, families, and groups experiencing life transitions. Her groundbreaking research on the death of an only child has been published in leading journals.