Loss is At the Heart of Life: A General Introduction to Grief and the Practice of Helping Persons Who are Mourning

While this guidebook aims to help persons who support grieving persons with mental retardation with knowledge about expressions of grief in persons with mental retardation, and with knowledge about the development of grief support services for persons with mental retardation-in a more basic sense, the book is intended to increase awareness of the psychological and spiritual grief language and vulnerabilities of persons with mental retardation. This awareness compels the development of norms for supporting the grief of persons with mental retardation.