A Guide to Coping with the Grieving Process When a Pet Dies
Understanding helps heal the hurt when you lose a pet.
This award-winning book has been hailed as the seminal work in the field. And now the fourth newly revised and expanded edition offers so much more to the bereaving pet owner. This edition also includes a significant new way of considering the meaning of afterlife for us and our pets. It discusses the topic from a twenty-first century scientific perspective that is very different from existing religious or metaphysical ones, offering a new comfort to skeptics and agnostics as well.
This book will help you in your healing from that special loss. It includes topics such as:
- Validating this special kind of grief
- The grieving process, including typical stages of bereavement and techniques for coping
- Children and the death of a pet
- Euthanasia, including important emotional considerations
- Religion and the death of a pet, with articles by various religious leaders
- Aftercare facilities, including an extensive index of pet cemeteries, crematories, and memorial gardens
WALLACE SIFE, Ph.D. is a psychologist and internationally renowned authority on pet bereavement, and a pioneer in this field. The first edition of this celebrated classic won the prestigious Maxwell Award for the best nonfiction pet book of 1993. Dr. Sife founded and is the CEO of the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement (APLB), a nonprofit organization that offers a broad spectrum of help to grieving pet owners (www.aplb.org). He also is renowned for his special seminars to train counselors in this field.
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Product details
Publisher : Howell Book House; Fourth edition (March 18, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 328 pages
ISBN-10 : 1630260797
ISBN-13 : 978-1630260798
Item Weight: 1 pounds
Dimensions: 6 x 0.73 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #67,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#22 in Pet Loss Grief
#214 in Love & Loss
Customer Reviews: 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (252)
“Pets are not only healing presences, they also bring the magic of unabashed love into our lives. So when one of them dies, the loss can be crushing―and lingering. This book, The Loss of a Pet, is healing balm for those who are in the midst of this grief.”
― Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
