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Guidebook on helping persons with mental retardation mourn.
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The grief language of persons with intellectual disabilities reveals intellectual capacities that are no less powerful,complex, subtle, disturbing, deep, and spiritual than those revealed in more discursive and dialectical grief language. This book will assist readers in recognizing and understanding the behavioral language of grief among persons with intellectual disabilities and in developing intervention plans to support them through their grief, in both the short and long term.
The book contributes to an awareness of the significance of loss in the life experience of persons with intellectual disabilities. Experiencing loss may cause a very powerful vulnerability in psychological life, and dealing with this loss is a basic element in psychological health. This book lays a foundation for grief support services, establishes standards of practice and care, and is an educational primer about the
loss and mourning needs of people with intellectual disabilities. It carefully details guidelines for support, therapeutic intervention, family issues regarding a dying caregiver, and agency interventions
and program development.
Excerpts from reviews of the book:
"Jeffrey Kauffman’s book raises the bar for any future works on how to support people with an intellectual disability (ID) who experience loss, grief, and mourning. What distinguishes Kauffman’s contribution is not so much his rigorous theoretical framework for understanding grief and mourning as a process necessary for healing. Rather, his feat is elucidating the distinctive psychosocial effects of loss and the behavioral language of grief characteristic of persons with ID. Having established these precepts, he systematically illustrates them with practice applications of both the theory and process.
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