
Williams and King Publishers
...members of the caring professions need all the counselling skills that we can muster. Readers of this book will end up feeling less helpless in the face of death but we should not expect to find communication easy. "What can we say?" Once we think we know what to say we are wrong. Rather this book will help us to learn when to speak of dying and when not to, what not to say and when to keep silent and wait patiently for what gliding instructors call an 'up-draught'. We must start from wherever the other person may be and we must take the time and trouble to discover the language with which this person speaks about death and dying, the assumptions they make and their needs and wishes to speak or not to speak.
- From the Foreword by Dr Colin Murray Parkes, Life President of Cruse Bereavement Care
Author: Colin Murray Parkes |
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2008 |
Number of Pages: 192 pages |
Binding: Paperback or Softback |
ISBN-10: 1843106787 |
ISBN-13: 9781843106784 |