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Resilient grieving : how to find your way through devastating loss : a practical guide to recovery / Lucy Hone.

By: Publisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Allen & Unwin, 2017Copyright date: ©2016Description: xii, 244 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781760296995
Uniform titles:
  • What Abi taught us
Subject(s):
Contents:
The end of the world as we know it -- Six strategies for coping in the immediate aftermath -- What can resilience psychology teach us about grieving? -- Accept the loss has occurred -- Humans are hardwired to cope -- Secondary losses -- Positive emotions -- Distraction -- Three habits of resilient thinking -- Relationships (and what friends and family can do to help) -- Strengths -- Managing exhaustion and depression through rest and exercise -- Reappraising your brave new world -- Facing the future -- Continuing the bond -- Post-traumatic growth -- Press pause -- Rituals and mourning the dead -- Nothing lasts forever -- A final word.
Summary: "Dr Lucy Hone works in the field of resilience psychology, helping ordinary people exposed to real-life traumatic situations. When faced with the incomprehensible fact of her daughter's tragic death Lucy knew that she was fighting for the survival of her sanity and her family unit. She used her practice to develop ways to support her family in their darkest days, and to find a new way of living without Abi. In Resilient Grieving Lucy shares her research so that others can work to regain some sense of control and take action in the face of helpless situations"--Page 4 of cover.

"Previously published as What Abi taught us"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

The end of the world as we know it -- Six strategies for coping in the immediate aftermath -- What can resilience psychology teach us about grieving? -- Accept the loss has occurred -- Humans are hardwired to cope -- Secondary losses -- Positive emotions -- Distraction -- Three habits of resilient thinking -- Relationships (and what friends and family can do to help) -- Strengths -- Managing exhaustion and depression through rest and exercise -- Reappraising your brave new world -- Facing the future -- Continuing the bond -- Post-traumatic growth -- Press pause -- Rituals and mourning the dead -- Nothing lasts forever -- A final word.

"Dr Lucy Hone works in the field of resilience psychology, helping ordinary people exposed to real-life traumatic situations. When faced with the incomprehensible fact of her daughter's tragic death Lucy knew that she was fighting for the survival of her sanity and her family unit. She used her practice to develop ways to support her family in their darkest days, and to find a new way of living without Abi. In Resilient Grieving Lucy shares her research so that others can work to regain some sense of control and take action in the face of helpless situations"--Page 4 of cover.

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