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Grieving mental illness : a guide for patients and their caregivers / Virginia Lafond.

Title
Grieving mental illness : a guide for patients and their caregivers / Virginia Lafond.
Author
Lafond, Virginia.
Publication
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2002.

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Description
xxv, 123 p.; 23 cm.
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.
Subject
  • Adaptation, Psychological
  • Bereavement
  • Caregivers > psychology
  • Grief therapy
  • Maladies mentales
  • Mental Disorders > psychology
  • Mental illness > Treatment
  • Mental illness
  • Travail de deuil
Genre/Form
Popular Work
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
0802085326 (pbk.) :
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library