By Alexus McLeod — 2017
As much as we all know about the inevitability of death, we are often unable to deal with the loss of a loved one.
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Following the death of his 18-year-old daughter, Barry Kluger is campaigning for federal law to allow more time off for grieving parents.
When people are pushed into advocacy or social work as a result of a traumatic loss, part of the benefit for those affected is in keeping busy, but it’s also a way to memorialize their loved ones, explained Joanne Cacciatore, an associate research professor at Arizona State University who studies...
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A new study explores the importance of care farming, using therapeutic spaces to treat individuals impacted by traumatic grief.
A young mother nears the end of her pregnancy with the hope that this child will be as healthy as her other three children. For some reason, however, she feels a sense that something is wrong.
I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.
Joanne Cacciatore of Sedona started the nonprofit MISS Foundation in 1996 to provide counseling, advocacy, research and education services to families who have endured the death of a child.
Behind the statistics are mourners unable to find comfort by coming together.
Parents who have suffered the loss of a child are generally offered limited physical and emotional space for bereavement.
There is a care farm in Arizona where rescue animals are helping people deal with traumatic grief.
You can let anxiety consume you, or you can feel the fear and also find joy in ordinary life, even now.