Hospices and Caregivers

For Hospices and Other Caregivers

Caregivers have special needs of their own. The following articles are designed to help caregivers take care of themselves as well as those who are suffering from loss.

Companioning the Bereaved: An Introduction
Tenet 1: Companioning Principle
Tenet 2: Companioning Principle
The Awesome Power of “Telling The Story”: Why I’m Proud to be a Grief Counselor
Caregiver as Gardener: A Parable
Companioning vs. Treating: Beyond The Medical Model of Bereavement Caregiving
Growing Through Grief: The Role of Support Groups
Responding to Problems in the Support Group Setting
The Bereavement Caregiver’s Self-Care Guidelines

“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”

Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on.”

Kay Redfield Jamison, Nothing Was the Same

" Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits".

Shneidman (1980)

Hospices / Caregivers

Hospices and Caregivers

For Hospices and Other Caregivers