the unwanted gift of grief
a ministry approach
The Unwanted Gift of Grief
A Ministry Approach
Publisher
Haworth Press, Inc.
Hard Cover ISBN
978-0-7890-2949-2
Soft Cover ISBN
978-0-7890-2950-8
Date Published
October 2006
Number of Pages
192 pp. with Index.
Foreword by
Dr. John R. Claypool
The author
Tim P. VanDuivendyk
DMin, MDiv, BS, ACPE, APC, LMFT, LPC, Chaplain and System Executive Spiritual Care and Development, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston, Texas.
Also Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Texas.
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About the book
Learn how to embrace the painful gift of grief and use it for transformation and healing.
The Unwanted Gift of Grief is a passionate, practical guide through the grieving process for those who have suffered loss—and those who supportively walk with them. Rather than talking people out of their grief and pain, VanDuivendyk affirms the importance of helping people talk out their grief and pain in order to heal better and move toward healing, transformation and hope. Using real and in-depth ministry and counseling conversations, it identifies the journey through the wilderness of grief.
This powerful book is equally valuable as a professional guide for ministers, counselors, healthcare professionals, a friend next door, family member, a training tool for lay ministers and congregation members, and an empathic and sensitive guide for one who is suffering.
Some of the topics addressed in The Unwanted Gift of Grief: A Ministry Approach include:
• Grief as gift
• Grief as gratitude
• How family and culture can effect grieving
• Different pathways through grief
• Everyone grieves differently
• Sudden loss, slow losing, rejection and suicide
• Identifying the agony and characteristics of depression
• Grief factors that affect marriage and sexuality
• How men and women tend to grief differently
• Factors of faith, science and miracles
• Saying "Yes" to death
• The labor and contractions of dying and death
• The hope for healing and cure
• How to help: the "Sojourner’s Process Guide"
• The "Grief Date: A Guide for Couples"
• Fifty ways to transform through the wilderness
• and much more
The Unwanted Gift of Grief is an essential resource for anyone lost in the wilderness of loss and grief, and for professionals, lay ministers, family, and friends who care for them.
Foreword by John R. Claypool
