1st Edition
Coping with Bereavement Practical Strategies to Empower and Support You
1. Introduction 2. What do we mean by Bereavement 3. My Story 4. Impact of Bereavement 5. Living on – Coping with Bereavement 6. Bereavement and Parenting 7. Bereavement after Suicide 8. Coping with bereavement alongside longstanding trauma 9. Bereavement and the Identity of an Immigrant 10. Bereavement and Working in a Helping Profession 11. Conclusions and Further Support
Biography
Dr Agnieszka Anna Pytlowana is a clinical psychologist whose main area of interest is coping with trauma that may have occurred during childhood or adulthood, as well as coping with bereavement. Since 2005, she has worked in third sector charities, Local Authorities and the National Health Service in the UK. Her father died in 2015 and she draws on this lived experience as well as on her professional expertise to benefit others who are also faced with death and grief.
'This timely book integrates a wide range of contemporary approaches, the professional and personal experience of the author and attention to important but often neglected situations (e.g. bereavement in the refugee experience), distilling them into clear and practical suggestions for the grieving. A refreshingly knowledgeable and wide-ranging resource for the bereaved.'
Dr Ray Owen, Consultant clinical psychologist, author of Facing the Storm and co-host of podcast Two Old Psychologists Talking About Stuff
'This book engages with a wide range of contexts for bereavement, and acknowledges the importance of personal circumstances, including intersection with other trauma and with culture. Each chapter includes a range of practical ideas for growing through grief, but always recognises that none of these is a simple solution: grief is messy, and each one of us experiences it uniquely.'
Sands Bereavement Support Service
'Incorporating current thinking and approaches to grief and how to work through a significant loss experience, Coping with Bereavement is a wonderfully sensitive and thoughtful resource. Through the examples, practical suggestions, and realistic descriptions of grief that can occur from many types of loss experiences, readers will find this to be an incredibly useful guide that will help them navigate their grief in compassionate and helpful ways.'
Professor Darcy Harris, RN, RSW, MEd(Couns), Ph.D., FT, Professor Emeritus, King’s University College at Western University
