{"product_id":"the-choice-finding-life-in-the-face-of-adversity-six-stories-from-a-therapists-casebook-paperback","title":"The Choice: Finding Life in the Face of Adversity -- Six Stories from a Therapist's Casebook - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJan Hatanaka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow available in paperback -- Jan Hatanaka's powerful, life-enhancing book on how six people, encountering significant adversity, made a conscious choice to work to build a life of meaning. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing six stories from her casebook as a therapist, Hatanaka explores and illustrates the complex relationships that exist between death and grief and the path that can lead to reconciling that grief. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncluded in her stories is her own heart-wrenching and dramatic experience following a major health crisis. Hatanaka draws on her personal, clinical, and academic experience as she takes the reader through the Greif Reconciliation Process, describing the actual steps taken by people who manage to build a life of meaning in the face of significant adversity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Choice\u003c\/i\u003e is brilliant in its simple, gentle, and profound exploration of the reality of suffering as part of the human experience. It exposes the hope that can be hidden in affliction. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Choice\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great help to those currently in the grips of personal adversity; the loved ones of those who are suffering; and health-care professionals, including medical practitioners, counsellors, therapists, and spiritual advisors. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Jan Hatanaka's approach to grief and reconciliation is informed by: her personal experience; her extensive academic research on the universality of grief and loss; and her in-depth discussions with hundreds of individuals willing to recount their personal stories. The founder of Grief Reconciliation International Inc., she holds positions at York University, Toronto, in the Department of Nursing, the Religious Studies program, and the York Institute for Health Research. She has a B.Sc. in nursing from the University of Ottawa, a Master's degree in education and counseling psychology from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Wales.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Choice\u003c\/i\u003e to introduce a process and a language that I hoped would help those who had made a choice to work toward greater understanding and wisdom concerning the reconciliation of grief in their lives. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe grieve in response to the loss of someone or something that we hold dear. While this response may manifest itself in many different ways, this book serves to illustrate the many common themes that surface in stories told by individuals relaying their personal experience in working to reconcile grief. I am pleased that this book is serving as a practical guide to those seeking help and those seeking to help others. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA dramatic, challenging, and liberating book that introduces the choice we all must make when faced with adversity — a book that traces the intense struggles and triumphs of those who have learned to reconcile grief in their lives, including, in this book: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe author herself, who survived a major challenge to her health \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn up-and-coming student, whose fall on a football field renders him a paraplegic and takes him to the edge of suicide \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn MBA graduate, who discovers that unresolved grief in his family two generations back is threatening his marriage today \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA mother of two young children, who experiences a terrorism threat and can't reconnect with her family and colleagues \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA retired boxer, who faces the toughest bout of all when given the news that his condition is inoperable \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA woman entering her senior years who is emerging from a deep well of depression over the loss of her twenty-year-old son\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43898124468359,"sku":"9781926645490","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/SBJUsEPn0c9781926645490.webp?v=1771030236","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-choice-finding-life-in-the-face-of-adversity-six-stories-from-a-therapists-casebook-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}