After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth
Ebook
After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth references the long and painful journey of bereavement that many suicide-loss-survivors experience in the wake of losing their loved one. A new area of positive psychology offers another vehicle for understanding the consequences of this experience by investigating the possibilities for personal growth within the context of this distressing and traumatic event. There is much to be mined by exploring faith as both a facilitator of growth and an outcome of growth. The contributors to this book are all suicide bereaved and have written short essays about how faith changed and grew as they traversed their journey of bereavement and also buoyed them in their darkest time of loss. Contributors are faith leaders, mental health professionals, caring survivors, and leaders in the fields of suicidology, thanatology, and bereavement. A must-read for any survivor of suicide loss.
“Dr. Melinda Moore and Rabbi Dan Roberts have lived through
suicide grief and have learned the best ways to help people who
have experienced this trauma. With a variety of authors who have
lived experiences with suicide, this book shows how people can
experience posttraumatic growth and hope. Thank you for this book!
It will become a regular addition to my reading list for new
survivors of suicide loss.”
—Julie Cerel, director, Suicide Prevention & Exposure Lab,
University of Kentucky
“This book is about telling stories. Stories that are both painful
and cathartic at the same time. Stories to learn from, for both
professionals as they companion their clients, patients, and
congregations, and most certainly for survivors themselves. Moore,
Roberts, and the amazing contributors remind us that, at some
point, survivors can move from coping and surviving to being
transformed and thriving.”
—Ben Wolfe, founder, director and grief therapist (retired), St.
Mary’s Medical Center’s Grief Support Center
- Title: After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth
- Authors: Melinda Moore, Daniel Roberts, Richard G. Tedeschi
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666748680, 9781666748673, 9781666748666, 1666748684, 1666748676, 1666748668
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666748680
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-11-05T20:37:35Z
Melinda Moore, PhD, is an associate professor in the
department of psychology at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in
Richmond, Kentucky, and core faculty for the EKU Clinical
Psychology doctoral program. She routinely trains clinicians in the
empirically supported suicide-focused treatment framework CAMS and
is in private practice in Lexington, Kentucky. She published The
Suicide Funeral: Honoring their Memory, Comforting their
Survivors (Wipf & Stock) with her co-editor, Rabbi Daniel
Roberts.
Rabbi Daniel A. Roberts, DD, DMin, FT, is rabbi emeritus of
Temple Emanu El in Cleveland, Ohio, where he served for thirty-five
years. Rabbi Roberts received his ordination from Hebrew Union
College in Cincinnati (1969) and his DMin from Pittsburgh
Theological Seminary. He earned a fellow in thanatology
certification awarded by the Association for Death Education and
Counselling. Throughout his career Rabbi Roberts has been intrigued
with the field of thanatology.