Monika Specht-Tomann

Monika Specht-Tomann (born February 7, 1950 in Graz ) is an Austrian psychologist , psychotherapist and specialist book author .

Life

Having grown up in Graz, after graduating from high school in 1968, she trained as a physiotherapist there in Vienna. She then studied psychology, psychopathology and philosophy in Vienna, Salzburg and Constance . She trained in various methods such as concentrative movement therapy (Miriam Goldberg), expressive dance , relaxation training, supervision, and clinical hypnosis according to Milton H. Erickson .

Until 1983 she worked in Konstanz at the University of Konstanz in teaching and research and as a freelancer for the family and sex counseling center Pro Familia in Konstanz. She then worked as a freelancer in institutions in the Graz-Seckau diocese, with a focus on various areas of adult education.

Since 1993 she has been working as a freelancer in the areas of hospice work (counseling and support for the seriously ill, initiation and management of cancer groups, individual support and support for relatives), the development of training curricula (basic hospice training; basic and advanced training curricula for human professions; teaching curriculum "social internship"), and supervision of hospice teams. She works as a consultant in training contexts of hospice work, palliative care and pain mentors, as a lecturer at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, the Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule Graz , the Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule Wien and IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems , as well as a non-fiction book author in the fields of hospice since 1998, Dying and grief counseling and pain therapy.

Monika Specht-Tomann has four children and lives with her family in Graz / Austria.

Awards

• 2002: Awarding of the Leopold Kunschak Acknowledgment Prize for the published work on the subject of dying, death and mourning
• 2003: Austrian advancement award for adult education for the book “Tell me your life. Listening and speaking in advice and support "

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, time to say goodbye. Death and grief counseling, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-491-72401-5 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, we are now saying goodbye. Children and young people encounter dying and death, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-491-72426-0 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, helpful conversations and healing touches in everyday care, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Barcelona, ​​Hong Kong, London, Milan, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo 2000, ISBN 3-540-66848-9 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, time to mourn. Understanding and accompanying children and adults, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-491-72441-4 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, ways out of mourning, (= series: What moves people) Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7831-1905-7
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, time to say goodbye. Death and grief counseling. From the hospice movement, paperback edition, Krummwisch 2001 (license edition), ISBN 3-89875-018-3 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, tell me your life. Listening and speaking in counseling and accompaniment, Düsseldorf, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-530-40143-9 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, Helpful Conversations and Healing Touches in Everyday Care Life, 2nd, edition, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Paris, Tokyo 2004, ISBN 3-540-01364-4 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann (author). The state of Styria, FA 6C, youth, women, family and generations (publisher), family hospice leave. Accompany relatives. A guide, Graz 2002.
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Andreas Sandner-Kiesling, pain : how can we deal with it? Düsseldorf, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-530-40171-4 , full paperback edition Knaur Volume 87335 (Mens sana), 2007, (= Knaur, Volume 87335, Series: Mens sana), ISBN 978-3-426-87335-9 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, time to say goodbye. Death and grief counseling. From the hospice movement (= Conscious living), paperback edition, 2nd edition. Krummwisch bei Kiel 2005, (= Conscious living), ISBN 3-89875-135-X .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, When Children Are Afraid. How we can help, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-491-40106-8 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, Helpful Conversations and Healing Touches in Daily Care, 3rd Edition, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-46773-1 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Time of Farewell: Death and Grief Support, 6th edition Düsseldorf: Patmos 2007, ISBN 978-3-491-72519-5 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, When Children Are Sad: How We Can Help, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-491-40136-5 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, biography work in health, sick and elderly care, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88778-2 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, I'll stay with you until the end. Assistance for caring relatives, Freiburg / Breisgau. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7831-3335-6 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, time to say goodbye. Death and grief counseling, 7th edition Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-491-72519-5 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, we are now saying goodbye. Children and young people encounter dying and death, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-8436-0006-4 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, When Children Are Afraid. How we can help, 2nd edition Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-8436-0058-3 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper, Helpful conversations and healing touches in everyday care (= Springer Medicine) 4., revised. Aufl., Heidelberg 2011, (also: Online edition Helpful conversations and healing touches in everyday care) ISBN 978-3-642-20892-8 .
• Monika Specht-Tomann, Doris Tropper: At your side until the very end. Accompaniment and care of seriously ill and dying people. 7th edition. mvg, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-636-07243-6 .

Sound carrier

• Walter Mathes (narrator), Emi Elfriede Scharf, Lilli Eva Mayer, Emi Elfriede Scharf (author). Mariann Unterluggauer (director), Monika Specht-Tomann (psychological preparation), Emi and the dragon with the butterfly wings: a radio play for children and everyone who wants to empathize with children in grief situations (sound carrier), Gleisdorf 2009, (CD and booklet) ISBN 978-3-9502696-0-4 .
• Unbelievably Wilde Traudi [sound carrier]: A radio play for brave children and everyone who wants to discover their own strength! / Elfriede Scharf (author of the story), Kuddel-Muddel-Theater, Traudi Susanne Weber, Paula Florinda Fürst, Barbara Baumgartner, Florian Haring, Monika Specht-Tomann (psychological preparation), Gleisdorf 2010 (CD and + booklet), ISBN 978- 3-9502696-1-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Monika Specht-Tomann in the catalog of the German National Library