Alan D Wolfelt: 66 books
Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say-or what not to say-to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that...
Healing Your Grief When Disaster Strikes
100 Practical Ideas for Coping After a Tornado, Hurricane, Flood, Earthquake, Wildfire, or Other Natural Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
When your family, neighborhood, city, or area of the country is affected by a natural disaster, it’s normal and necessary to feel grief and the traumatic experience of actually witnessing and surviving the event may be consuming you. This book will help you understand and embrace your difficult...
Caring for Donor Families
Before, During and After
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Integrating vital information on the dynamics of the donation experience and grief education, this revised second edition provides an invaluable resource for hospital and organ procurement caregivers. Going beyond helping professionals understand the challenges of obtaining consent, this guide invites...
Healing Your Grieving Soul
100 Spiritual Practices for Mourners
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Following a helpful introduction about the role of spirituality in grief, this practical mourning guide suggests activities based on meditation, prayer, yoga, and contemplative solitude to help with feelings of despair. For mourners who suffer from anxiety, breathing exercises are recommended, and...
Creating Meaningful Funeral Experiences
A Guide for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Written in response to the current trend to deritualize death and funeral ceremonies, this book explores the ways in which caregivers and clergy can create heartfelt ceremonies that help the bereaved begin to heal. Explaining the purposes behind rituals, it reviews the many ways these have changed...
by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Designed to complement the clergy and funeral director’s role in the funeral planning process, this book walks families through the many decisions they will make at the time of a death and helps them create a ceremony that will be both healing and meaningful. Options are clearly explained and alternatives...
Healing Your Grieving Heart After a Military Death
100 Practical Ideas for Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Practical methods for healing after the loss of a member of the military
When a loved one is killed in the line of duty, this book affirms that survivors’ grief is shaped by the unique circumstances of the death. Because military deaths are almost always sudden and violent, the traumatic nature...
Healing Your Grieving Body
100 Physical Practices for Mourners
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Acknowledging the unique set of symptoms that accompanies a period of mourning, this guide is the ideal companion to weathering the storm of physical distress. From muscle aches and pains to problems with eating and sleeping, this handbook addresses how the body responds to the impact of profound...
Healing the Empty Nester's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas for Parents After the Kids Move Out, Go Off to College, or Start Taking Flight
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
You've spent most of your adult life focused on the care and raising of your children, and now they're leaving. For you and for them, this major transition is often challenging in many ways. You may feel surprised at the power of your grief—a confusing mixture of sadness, hope, emptiness, fear,...
Death And Grief
A Guide For Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.