By Joan Beder
Voices of Bereavement offers counselors with particular, occasionally strange bereavement events and their next treatment.
Joan Beder blends theoretical content material with feedback for intervention, supporting the reader have fun with how conception informs perform. furthermore, a bit on counselor struggles specializes in what emotions have been provoked within the counselor in the course of every one case and the way those emotions have been managed.
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1992). The compounding effect of multiple losses is a constant theme in the homosexual community and is a source of concern and anguish; the impact on survivors of multiple losses complicates the resolution of their grief, in part, because there is insufficient time between deaths to work through the grief process before another death occurs (Nord, 1996b). The range of emotions in multiple losses is wide. fm Page 31 Thursday, April 29, 2004 3:06 PM Bereavement After Multiple Losses 31 emotional shutdown (Carmack, 1992); psychic numbing to screen emotions that are overwhelming, which is a frequent defense used against the pain of the losses (Boykin, 1991); and depression and anhedonia (the inability to enjoy pleasurable events).
Delores’s resistance to confront her feelings fell apart during the fifth session when, in the middle of recalling her sixth grade graduation party that Grandmom had made for her, she realized that Grandmom would not be there for her high school graduation. It was a dramatic moment in that Delores, it seemed, realized for the first time that Grandmom was no longer a part of her world. And that was when the tears began to flow. Delores had been holding all this grief inside and it seemed to burst forth at this pivotal trigger moment.
Within 11 months, there had been three deaths: her son, her partner and life mate, and her ex-husband. ” Laura lamented. ” As a deeply religious woman, she had been brought up to “do the right thing” and to be respectful of others. She had an older brother with whom she kept in touch and was in frequent contact with her mother who lived in another state. She had married young and quickly had three children, but the marriage proved unsatisfying and she and her husband parted. ” Her emotional history was not particularly complex.