Using the Power of Hope to Cope with Dying

The Four Stages of Hope

Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes, M.A., R.N.
Foreword by Carol Reed Ash, Ph.D.

$25.00 ($25.00 Canada) • 6" x 9.25" • 200 pages • Hardcover • ISBN 978-1884956-80-5/1-884956-80-7 • BISAC SEL010000/FAM014000

About this Book

      Encouraged and supported by her colleague and mentor, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Fanslow-Brunjes’ “Hope System” is a continuation and a deepening of Kubler-Ross’s famous Five Stages of Dying.

 Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes’ “Hope System,” which incorporates

the four stages of hope, is a proven program that has helped more than 40,000 individuals at all stages of their illness into death. This powerful and simple process enables families, friends, and
professional caregivers to understand and assist the dying on their journey. Fanslow- Brunjes shows the reader—both the living and the dying—how to use the power of hope to cope with the inevitable.

About the Author

     Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes is an internationally-acclaimed expert in the fields of death, dying, grief, and hospice care. She has presented over 600 workshops and lectures on the subject and was the keynote speaker at the First International Congress for Hospice and Palliative Care in Rome.
     Fanslow-Brunjes developed the “Standards of Care for the Dying Patient” program used throughout the U.S. Veterans Administration hospital system and the “Standards for Nursing Practice for the Care of the Dying” program used statewide in new York.
      For more than 35 years, Fanslow-Brunjes has worked with the dying, their families, their caregivers, and the professional staffs involved with them.