Disenfranchised Grief: Ministry That Breaks the Silence
Thirty years ago, Kenneth J. Doka coined the term "disenfranchised grief" to refer to losses people experience that are not socially sanctioned, openly acknowledged, or publicly mourned. The concept of disenfranchised grief is now widely recognized and used in the health professions and social sciences. Unfortunately, the same attention to the issue is less true of clergy training, ministry practice, and many caregiving circles.

Yet, this lack of awareness and training of clergy and congregational caregivers to attend to disenfranchised grief critically hampers their vital roles in validating and empowering grieving individuals, educating parishioners, and creating rituals that offer comfort and support to disenfranchised grievers. Disenfranchised Grief: Breaking the Silence helps clergy and ministry caregivers understand current grief theory and acknowledge a variety of situations in their congregations where grief might be overlooked or even discouraged. This book offers much-needed tools to help a variety of caregiving practitioners gain skills and strategies to enhance their ministries to an often-neglected population.

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Disenfranchised Grief: Ministry That Breaks the Silence
Thirty years ago, Kenneth J. Doka coined the term "disenfranchised grief" to refer to losses people experience that are not socially sanctioned, openly acknowledged, or publicly mourned. The concept of disenfranchised grief is now widely recognized and used in the health professions and social sciences. Unfortunately, the same attention to the issue is less true of clergy training, ministry practice, and many caregiving circles.

Yet, this lack of awareness and training of clergy and congregational caregivers to attend to disenfranchised grief critically hampers their vital roles in validating and empowering grieving individuals, educating parishioners, and creating rituals that offer comfort and support to disenfranchised grievers. Disenfranchised Grief: Breaking the Silence helps clergy and ministry caregivers understand current grief theory and acknowledge a variety of situations in their congregations where grief might be overlooked or even discouraged. This book offers much-needed tools to help a variety of caregiving practitioners gain skills and strategies to enhance their ministries to an often-neglected population.

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Disenfranchised Grief: Ministry That Breaks the Silence

Disenfranchised Grief: Ministry That Breaks the Silence

by Kenneth J. Doka
Disenfranchised Grief: Ministry That Breaks the Silence

Disenfranchised Grief: Ministry That Breaks the Silence

by Kenneth J. Doka

Overview

Thirty years ago, Kenneth J. Doka coined the term "disenfranchised grief" to refer to losses people experience that are not socially sanctioned, openly acknowledged, or publicly mourned. The concept of disenfranchised grief is now widely recognized and used in the health professions and social sciences. Unfortunately, the same attention to the issue is less true of clergy training, ministry practice, and many caregiving circles.

Yet, this lack of awareness and training of clergy and congregational caregivers to attend to disenfranchised grief critically hampers their vital roles in validating and empowering grieving individuals, educating parishioners, and creating rituals that offer comfort and support to disenfranchised grievers. Disenfranchised Grief: Breaking the Silence helps clergy and ministry caregivers understand current grief theory and acknowledge a variety of situations in their congregations where grief might be overlooked or even discouraged. This book offers much-needed tools to help a variety of caregiving practitioners gain skills and strategies to enhance their ministries to an often-neglected population.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506488264
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 06/03/2025
Pages: 188
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kenneth J. Doka is professor emeritus at the College of New Rochelle and senior vice president for grief programs for the Hospice Foundation of America. Ken has published more than forty books and one hundred articles and book chapters. He is editor of both Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying and Journeys: A Newsletter to Help in Bereavement. He has an ongoing blog for Psychology Today titled "Good Mourning." He is also an ordained Lutheran clergyman.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Models of Grief

Chapter 2: Disenfranchised Grief

Chapter 3: Our Network of Relationships

Chapter 4: Unacknowledged Losses

Chapter 5: Misjudging Capacity, Styles, and Circumstances

Chapter 6: When Trauma Disenfranchises

Chapter 7: Pastoral Ministry to the Disenfranchised

Chapter 8: Congregational Ministry to the Disenfranchised Griever

Chapter 9: When Grief Becomes Complicated

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