Research Catalog

Title

Widow to widow : how the bereaved help one another / Phyllis R. Silverman.

Author

Silverman, Phyllis R.

Publication

New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2004.

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Details

Description

xxi, 259 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Widow to Widow combines practical information and sensitive insight, with moving firsthand accounts of widows and widowers threaded throughout the text. The mutual-help approach offers a fundamental paradigm shift from the treatment of grief to a focus on growth and development through an intimate sharing of wisdom, tears, laughter, and experience. Through a deeper understanding of widowhood and how the bereaved can help one another, this book can empower you to help others, and perhaps yourself, to move through the grieving process with the support of peers."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Series in death, dying, and bereavement

Uniform Title

Series in death, dying, and bereavement

Subject

• Women > psychology
• Social Support
• Self-Help Groups
• Widowhood > psychology
• Bereavement
• Widows > United States
• Widows > United States > Psychology
• Self-help groups > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-249) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Theoretical perspectives on grief and helping -- Widows and widowers : gender differences -- Grief as a time of loss and change : the nature of transition -- Help in a mutual help context -- On helping -- Could this really be happening to me? -- Uncertainty : what will happen next? -- Looking to the future : the fruits of help -- Parenting alone : widowed with dependent children -- The older widowed.

ISBN

0415947499 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004009011^^

OCLC

• 55000681
• SCSB-12526480

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library