COMPLICATED LOSSES, DIFFICULT DEATHS *E-BOOK* A Practical Guide for Ministering to Grievers Roslyn A. Karaban, PhD PDF, $17.95 134 pages, 5½" × 8½" ISBN 0-89390-668-9 View Table of Contents View Excerpt Quantity:

Grieving is difficult under any circumstances, but some losses are more difficult to cope with than others. Suicide, sudden losses, lingering illnesses, the death of a child, murders, miscarriages and the like evoke grief symptoms and reactions that are more intense and last longer than ordinary grief. Such complicated losses are more difficult for grief workers and may even impact whole communities. The author, a pastoral counselor, helps readers understand complicated losses in their own lives and prepares them to minister to others. Chapters cover ambiguous, sudden, lingering, traumatic, violent and untimely losses, as well as losses with social stigmas. A concluding section examines the need to care for caregivers. This resource is intended for invidual study or as a text for an advanced grief-ministry course. It includes study questions, excercises, an extensive bibliography and an index.

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“Clergy and bereavement ministers will find Complicated Losses, Difficult Deaths to be an especially useful manual, full of helpful advice, sage wisdom and useful exercises.”
— Kenneth J. Doka, professor of gerontology, College of New Rochelle, and author of Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing Hidden Sorrow

“Complicated Losses, Difficult Deaths is a most complete and informative book on understanding different kinds of grief and ministering to those in grief. An absolute ‘must read’ for every minister, caregiver and professional in bereavement work.”
— J. Mark Ammerman, pastor, hospital chaplain and author of Help During Grief

“Roslyn Karaban’s book is a welcome addition to bereavement literature. It should be on the desk of all bereavement counselors, especially those facilitating bereavement support groups or doing grief ministry in local churches. Her ‘experiential sensitivity’ comes through the pages very strongly and contributes significantly to the book’s value.”
— Peter Beisheim, professor of religious studies, Stonehill College, North Easton, Mass.

“Roslyn Karaban has written an eminently useful book for anyone involved in grief ministry. She has collected excellent resources to which she adds her own compassion, wisdom and pastoral experience. Together with engaging cases and study questions, this is a superb text for the seminary classroom as well as adult education courses in the church and synagogue.”
— Carroll Saussy, Howard Chandler Robbins professor of pastoral theology and care, Wesley Seminary, Washington, D.C.

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Roslyn Karaban, a certified grief therapist and death educator, has run a supervised pastoral training program for hospice chaplaincy since 1996. A tenured professor at St. Bernard’s Institute, she received advanced degrees from Stonehill College in North Easton, Mass., Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What Is Complicated Grief?

Uncomplicated Grief
Complicated Grief
Complicated Losses, Difficult Deaths
Study Questions and Practicum

Chapter One: Ambiguous Losses

Alzheimer’s Disease
Divorce
Study Questions and Practicums

Chapter Two: Disenfranchised Losses

Suicide
AIDS
Abortion
Study Questions and Practicums

Chapter Three: Sudden, Unanticipated Losses

Sudden Death: Accident
Sudden Death: Homicide
Rape
Study Questions and Practicums

Chapter Four: Children and Death

Parental Loss of a Child
Death of a Sibling
Loss of a Parent
Study Questions and Practicums

Chapter Five: Lingering Losses

Complicated Death from Cancer
Mental Illness
Multiple Sclerosis
Study Questions and Practicums

Chapter Six: Caring for Grief Ministers

Practicums

Appendix

Skills

Empathy
Summary
Focusing
Prompts
Probes
Information Questions
Information Sharing
Self-Disclosure
Advanced Empathy
Immediacy
Drawing Grief

Endnotes

Bibliography

Click on the link to read the first chapter from the book. Chapter 1: Ambiguous Losses