Mechthild Schroeter-Rupieper

Mechthild Schroeter-Rupieper (born January 20, 1964 ) is the founder of family grief work in Germany and co-founder of family grief work in Austria and Switzerland, family grief counselor , training advisor and author .

Life

After voluntary youth work at the German Scouting Association St. Georg as director, curator and member at the diocesan level of Essen, as well as at the Catholic women's community in Germany in the single parent sector, Mechthild Schroeter-Rupieper worked as an educator and kindergarten director in Gelsenkirchen. In 1991 she started independent training for educators in the diocese of Essen , followed by seminars on the subject of “Dealing with divorce, death and grief in families”, which were soon carried out nationwide. Today she works in her own practice (Lavia Institute for Family Grief Support) in Gelsenkirchen as a family grief counselor with children, young people and families from the Ruhr area. Schroeter-Rupieper works there in private practice with her pedagogical team with personal support and in mourning groups.

In seminars and lectures for grief counseling, she is internationally valued due to her knowledge of theory combined with diverse practical experience. As a specialist librarian, she is responsible for the nationwide training for child and youth grief counselors training for the Maltese , the Berlin / Brandenburg Senate, the Federal Armed Forces, the North Rhine-Westphalian Justice Academy, the Malteser Academy in Engelskirchen, for international congresses of curative teachers, palliative medicine and crisis intervention teams , emergency chaplains, children's hospice, for teacher training u. a. at the Vorarlberg University of Education , for the Caritas of the dioceses of Essen, Cologne and Vienna, for the Palliative Care Association of the German-speaking Community in Belgium and the State Association for Hospice Work and Palliative Medicine Saxony eV.

Since 2015 she and her Lavia team in Haltern am See have been supporting the grieving work of siblings and friends in connection with the accident of Germanwings flight 9525 .

Schroeter-Rupieper has been married to Meinrad Rupieper since 1987 and is the mother of three sons.

Awards

• Letter to entrepreneurs from NRW (May 2006)
• Borromeo non-fiction book of the month of November for the book "Forever Different"
• Guardian Angel Prize 2016 for Lavia Institute for Family Grief Support from the “For Children” Foundation in the Diocese of Essen

Books

• Stories that life tells because death wrote them. Patmosverlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-8436-0882-4
• Practice book mourning groups. 2015, Patmosverlag ISBN 978-3-8436-0674-5 .
• Handbook Kindertrauer: The accompaniment of children, adolescents and their families by Franziska Röseberg (ed.) (Author), Monika Müller (ed.) (Author), Mechthild Schroeter-Rupieper (co-author), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht July 2014, ISBN 978- 3-525-40227-6
• Men and crises - grief in focus Leidfaden 2013 issue 02, as co-author of a specialist article on men's grief groups , ISBN 978-3-525-80602-9
• You never go so completely ... A book full of memories. 2012, ISBN 978-3-8436-0225-9
• Mourn together - live together. Patmos, 2011/2. Edition, ISBN 978-3-8436-0093-4
• Rituals and symbols in hospice work. Mechthild Schroeter-Rupieper (co-author), Gütersloher Verlagshaus, ISBN 978-3-579-06836-7
• Forever different. The house book for families in times of grief and goodbye. Schwabenverlag, 2009/3. Edition, Patmos, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8436-0245-7

Professional article (selection)

• MUM & Ich grief counseling for adolescents of seriously ill mothers , pages 24–25, 2016, download under Living with Breast Cancer
• The magazine-When children mourn-community officers federal association Publisher: Federal Association of Community Officers in the Dioceses of the Federal Republic of Germany V. ISSN  2191-6942 , 2016, M. Schroeter-Rupieper (co-author)
• CNE.magazin, Certified Nursing Education-Maintaining the Humor-Accompanying the mourners, how they support relatives , Thieme, ISSN  1864-1865 , M. Schroeter-Rupieper (co-author)
• CLIC magazine from the Swiss Association of Maternity Advisors - Clic Dossier: No child is too small to mourn Clic No. 86, May 2015, M. Schroeter-Rupieper
• Online Family Handbook - ifp State Institute for Early Education 2013, "Children ask about death, even in kindergarten age" www.familienhandbuch.de
• Online Familienhandbuch-ifp State Institute for Early Education 2013, "The upcoming death of a family member" www.familienhandbuch.de
• Sometimes God is just stupid , church paper of the Kath. Kirche Vorarlberg, 2012
• Silent night, sad night? , WAZ The West, 2011
• Mastering the darkness together , KFD Association magazine, 2010
• Grief - but how? , Lebenswert, 2010, M. Schroeter-Rupieper (co-author)
• Suddenly and unexpectedly , blog at the existential since 2009, M. Schroeter-Rupieper (co-author)
• Online Family Handbook-ifp State Institute for Early Education 2007, "Until you are gone forever? Dealing with death and grief in school" www.familienhandbuch.de
• How to deal with grief , Life and Education, 2007, M. Schroeter-Rupieper
• Where is Grandma now? , Small & Large, 2006, M. Schroeter-Rupieper
• Gravestone for dog and cat , ddp, 2006, M. Schroeter-Rupieper
• When children encounter death , Kindergarten und Hort aktuell, 2006, M. Schroeter-Rupieper
• When children mourn , parents and kindergarten, 2006, M. Schroeter-Rupieper
• The fairy tale of silent death , Woman, 2006, M. Schroeter-Rupieper
• Family thing , Radio Saxony
• Dealing with grief has to be learned St. Vith, Belgium, M. Schroeter-Rupieper

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Unternehmerinnenbrief.de - Award-winning in the Emscher-Lippe region
2. ↑ Press release Borromäus non-fiction book of the month November , October 14, 2009 (PDF; 29 kB)
3. ↑ "Silent night, sad night?" , WAZ Der Westen, 2011.
4. ↑ Parents & Kindergarten: When Children Mourn , Edition 2/2006.
5. ↑ “Family thing ” (MP3; 2.4 MB), recording from Radio Saxony.

Web links

• family grief support (website)
• Literature by and about Mechthild Schroeter-Rupieper in the catalog of the German National Library