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Grieving mental illness : a guide for patients and their caregivers / Virginia Lafond.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lafond, Virginia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grief therapy.
- Mental illness--Treatment.
- Mental illness.
- Genre:
- Popular Work
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This is a self-help book for anyone who has endured the effects of mental illness, whether as sufferer, friend, family member, or caregiver. It offers detailed, jargon-free guidelines to help readers come to terms with mental illness in a positive way, while avoiding disabling emotional responses. Sophisticated in its approach and comprehensive in its treatment, Grieving Mental Illness will be useful both to health care workers and to the general public."--Jacket
- Contents:
- Learning to Work with the Grieving Process
- Grieving Begins with Acknowledging Loss
- Denial Doesn't Deserve Its Bad Reputation
- Be Sad!
- Be Angry!
- Taming Fear
- Acceptance: The Journey Continues
- A Practitioner's Guide for Working with the Grief of Mental Illness.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-99616-5
- 9786611996161
- 1-4426-7551-9
- OCLC:
- 666904075
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