Dealing with Loss and Grief in the Workplace
Everyone is affected by loss and grief at some time in their life. This applies in the workplace as much as anywhere else. People do not leave their grief at home when they go to work and, of course, loss issues can arise within the workplace as well as outside it. While grief can be an extremely painful experience, it is not necessarily harmful. However, if the needs of the grieving person are not taken into consideration at work, their pain can be intensified and their suffering increased unnecessarily. Also, if the significance of grief is not recognised, the result can be accidents, problems with quality leading to complaints and conflicts and so on. It is therefore important that loss and grief issues are not ‘brushed under the carpet’ in busy workplaces. To find out more, choose from the menu below.
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Learning resources to help you deal effectively but sensitively with loss and grief issues
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Grief and its Challenges explores how grieving has been theorized and explains the many social as well as personal factors affecting how individuals encounter, interpret and respond to grief. Brief but telling vignettes show how theory works in practice across a wide variety of grieving experiences, from bereavement and trauma to the breakdown of a relationship or losing a job. This text provides holistic understanding as well as guidance on how to respond to the bereaved and grieving. It is essential reading for trainees and practitioners in counselling, psychotherapy, social work and nursing looking to make sense of issues around loss, trauma and grief, and give skilled, sensitive support. Buy Grief and Its Challenges from The Neil Thompson Bookshop |
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Loss and Grief provides help in explaining the impact loss and grief can have not only after the death of a family member, colleague or friend, but also in so many other aspects of people's lives. |
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Loss, Grief and Trauma in the Workplace provides guidance on how to respond to the challenges that arise when loss, grief or trauma affects people in the workplace. It is an unfortunate but inevitable fact that all organisations will face these challenges from time to time. This book is a much needed and invaluable resource for anyone wishing to manage people in a working environment effectively but sensitively. |
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Responding to Loss (Russell House Publishing Ltd, 2009)Loss and grief can affect anyone in any organisation. For some staff, managers and leaders, dealing with them is a frequent experience because of the nature of their work. For others, it may be less frequent; but they are still somehow expected to know what to do when a death or other loss does occur - even if no-one has actually helped them learn. How best can they and their colleagues continue to work alongside someone who is grieving? What is reasonable to expect from a grieving person as they continue to go about their work?
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Vox Audio Learning Programmes Coping with Grief (Avenue Media Solutions) No one is immune to the challenges presented by loss and grief. This Vox Audio Learning Programme comprises six lessons of approx. 30 minutes’ length designed to help understand what we need to do to cope with grief in our own lives and help other people to do so. Leading author and human relations expert, Dr Neil Thompson, lays the foundations for learning how to cope with grief. This product is available as an MP3 download for individuals or as a DVD-ROM for organisations |
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Dealing with Feelings (Avenue Media Solutions) We live and work in a very ‘rational’ society that tends to play down the significance of emotions. This Vox Audio Learning Programme comprises six lessons of approx. 30 minutes’ length designed to help understand what we need to do to become highly skilled in dealing with feelings, our own and those of other people. Leading author and human relations expert, Dr Neil Thompson, lays the foundations for developing what is often referred to these days as emotional intelligence. This product is available as an MP3 download for individuals or as a DVD-ROM for organisations |
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DVD Resource Working with Grief (Avenue Media Solutions) This DVD has been prepared to help a wide variety of people to develop their understanding of the significance of loss and grief in the workplace and in people’s lives more broadly. It is a 30 minute presentation that is divided into three parts.
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