Clearing the Path

On Death, Loss, and Grief

By: Eric Cassell, Lynne Dale Halamish

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Paperback | 8 July 2022 | Edition Number 1

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Clearing the Path is a collection of clinical stories that illustrate practical, applicable communication tools for professionals in work with end-of-life patients and families. These vignettes from practice demonstrate how impending death, death itself, and the loss of a relationship affect the lives and grief of both patients and survivors.

Written 13 years after its companion volume The Weeping Willow, the book brings even more complex encounters and nuanced emotions from additional years of experience in the field. The stories are woven in with the counseling process, thought process, and dilemmas of the counselor. Each story is then followed by "Notes to the Practitioner" with clear, practical and professional advice on navigating various communication issues and end with "Conclusions" which are short summaries of each vignette's teachings. At the end of each chapter the reader will find recent, annotated references for those who wish to read more about the topic. Chapters provide new, in-depth tools for dealing with death, grief, and loss from both the griever and the counselor or medical professional's perspective. What is unique to this book is the insight into the authentic human emotions experienced by both counselors and clients in these encounters with dying and grieving, making it useful for both the caregivers
and the recipients of end-of-life care.

Acknowledging that communication is individual and dependent on all the involved parties, these stories were selected to demonstrate many ways of communication through a range of situations, as well as the various attitudes, harmful and helpful, revealed in responses from people surrounding the patient or griever. Clearing the Path is not a conventional "how- to" book and it aims instead to teach by example from the hands-on counseling experiences of two experts who have worked in the field of field of death and dying, grieving and loss with responsibility and care. For professionals at all levels of experience those looking to navigate the difficulties of end-of-life care, this is the perfect guide.

Industry Reviews

"Grief counselor and educator Halamish (independent researcher) attempts to provide caregivers and palliative care professionals with new tools. [...] For each identified challenge, Halamish presents a clinical case study, [with] each case [accompanied] by notes to the practitioner, offering theoretical and practical teaching points [...] Taken together, these provide a minicourse in palliative care theory and best practice [...] This book will serve as a wonderful reference for professional palliative care workers and as a primer for novices in the field. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and professionals. Students in two-year technical programs." -- J. S. St. Clair, emeritus, University of Lynchburg, CHOICE connect "This book will serve as a wonderful reference for professional palliative care workers and as a primer for novices in the field." -- Choice

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