Stephanie Witt-Loers

Stephanie Witt-Loers (* 1964 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy, a grief counselor and a German specialist author specializing in “grief counseling for children and adolescents”.

Life

After studying philosophy, political science and Romance studies, she worked as an event manager in her own company. In 2005 she qualified as a volunteer hospice worker at the Vinzenz-Pallotti-Hospital in the Bockenberg district of Bergisch Gladbach. There she has been volunteering in death and grief counseling since 2006. After training in child grief counseling, in 2008 she led child grief groups at the Thalita child mourning center at the Balthasar children's and youth hospice in Olpe . From 2008 she qualified in grief counseling at the Mourning Institute in Germany with Chris Paul and works in her own practice in grief counseling and as a grief counselor for outpatient grief therapy on behalf of various youth welfare offices and children's homes as well as nationwide and in Austria as a training officer and lecturer. She published several specialist books and numerous specialist articles.

Witt-Loers integrates the levels of conversation, action, ritual and creative experience in her educational work. In its conceptual background, it refers, among other things, to a model of funeral tasks, similar to James William Worden.

Fonts (selection)

Publications in book form

Dying, Death and Grief in School - A Guide . Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-58009-7 .
Accompany mourners. Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-63020-4 .
Young people grieving at school . Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-77008-5 .
Young people grieving in the family. Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-40229-0 .
How children experience loss: ... and how we can provide helpful support. Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-525-70188-1 .
Never again: women survive after the death of their partner. Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-40278-8 .
Lead child grief groups. A manual on theory and practice. Changed new edition, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-40287-0 .
Accompany grieving people with intellectual disabilities: Orientation aid for caregivers. Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-70267-3 .

Articles in collective works

Helpful support for grieving children. In: State Institute for Early Education (IFP) (Ed.), Online Family Handbook (founded by Wassilios E. Fthenakis and Martin R. Textor ), (created on August 28, 2009, last changed on August 28, 2009).

To the death of a child. Information on grieving adult caregivers and hints for a sermon . In: Beate Kowalski (ed.): He wipes the tears from every face. Sermons and pastoral help for funeral ceremonies. Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-460-08031-7 , pp. 131-144.

To death by suicide. Encounters with relatives after a suicide, as well as tips for a sermon In: Beate Kowalski (ed.): He wipes the tears from every face. Sermons and pastoral help for funeral ceremonies. Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-460-08031-7 , pp. 145-151.

Death at school. How do I get the bad news to my class that a student is not coming back? , In: Max W. Richardt, Competent Protestant. Textbook for Protestant religious instruction, 10th grade, Volume 10 (= Competent Evangelical, Volume 4), Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-773048 , p. 104. online

Children experience the separation of their parents . In: Monika Müller , Franziska Röseberg (ed.): Handbook Kindertrauer. Accompanying children, young people and their families. Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-40227-6 .

How can parents support and accompany their children? In: Monika Müller, Franziska Röseberg (ed.): Handbook Kindertrauer. Accompanying children, young people and their families . Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-40227-6 .

Give young people space in their grief . In: Klaus Wegleitner, Dirk Blümke, Andreas Heller, Patrik Hofmacher (eds.): Death - No topic for children? Allow - experience - share. Loss and grief in the lives of children and adolescents . Suggestions for practice. Ludwigsburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-941251-66-3 , pp. 29-41.

Grief reactions, grief processes and mourning models in the school context . In: German Children's Hospice Association (ed.), Always new. Patience, amazement, confidence, Ludwigsburg 2015.

The button and memory glass . In: Federal Association of Orphaned Parents and Siblings in Germany and Mourning Siblings eV (Ed.), So that grief gets moving. Leipzig 2020.

items

Grief counseling in the life of children. In: Pedagogical Practice. May 2011.
School projects to deal with dying, death and grief. In: Leidfaden . 2nd year, 2012, issue 4, pp. 10–17.
Young people grieving in our society. In: Catholic Education . 115th year, 2014, issue 12, 11 pages.
Grief reactions and grief processes in children and adolescents. In: Praxis Palliative Care 2016, issue 32, pp. 34–37.
Losses - they are part of our lives and the lives of the children entrusted to us. In: Stephanie Witt-Loers (Ed.): KiTa current special . 19th year. ISSN 1437-4013, 4.2018, p. 121
Be sensitive to the losses that children experience in daycare! In: Stephanie Witt-Loers (Ed.): KiTa current special . 19th year ISSN 1437-4013, 4.2018, pp. 124–127.
Orientation aid for affected families with grieving children and young people. Brochure 20 pages, DRK district association Bergisch Gladbach, Institut Dellanima.
Dying, death and grief in school. In: Braunschweig contributions to religious education. Issue 1/2019, pp. 12–15, Braunschweig 2019, ISSN 2195-8424.

Lectures (selection)

Children are relatives. Lecture at the 9th Congress of the German Society for Palliative Medicine, Berlin 2012.
Basic knowledge of the subject of grief. Lecture on the network meeting pause button; Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth, Berlin 2019.

interview

Interview on dealing with grief among young people , in: WDR # 3sechzich published on March 25, 2015, online

Literature on Stephanie Witt-Loers

Doris Lindner: Review of February 17, 2011 to: Stephanie Witt-Loers: Accompanying mourners. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-63020-4 . In: socialnet reviews. ISSN 2190-9245 , online , accessed June 3, 2014.

Doris Lindner: Review of March 5, 2013 to: Stephanie Witt-Loers: Young people in grief at school. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-77008-5 . In: socialnet reviews. ISSN 2190-9245 , online , accessed June 3, 2014.

Robert Stickler: Review of January 2, 2015 to: Stephanie Witt-Loers: Grieving young people in the family. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-40229-0 . In: socialnet reviews. , ISSN 2190-9245 , online , accessed April 3, 2015.

Mechthild Herberhold: Review of February 25, 2014 to: Stephanie Witt-Loers, Birgit Halbe: Leading child mourning groups. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Gütersloh 2013. 255 pages. ISBN 978-3-579-06845-9 . In: socialnet reviews , ISSN 2190-9245 , online , accessed April 9, 2015.

Joachim Gneist: Review of September 20, 2017 to: Stephanie Witt-Loers Never again we (women after the death of their partner) Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, 215 pages ISBN 978-3-525-40278-8 in socialnet reviews. ISSN 2190-9245 , online , accessed September 28, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Elisabeth Jürgens, The psychotherapeutic accompaniment of grieving children and adolescents. In: German Society for Behavioral Therapy (DGVT) e. V., further education and training. Archive of professional articles, 2012, accessed May 12, 2014, p. 6.
↑ Mattias Günther's concept of mourning tasks (validation: recognizing the grief, reducing complexity: enabling communication and progression: perceiving resources) refers to Witt-Loers alongside Robert F. Antoch. (Cf. Monika Marose: Review of Matthias Günther: Death is a door. Pastoral care with grieving young people. With contributions by Jutta Rühlemann and Peter Noß-Kolbe. Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-62008-3 , p. 3 In: Bibor. Bonn Evangelical Institute for Vocational Religious Education (ed.), Reviews on the BRU.)

personal data
SURNAME	Witt-Loers, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH	1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bergisch Gladbach

[1] Elisabeth Jürgens, The psychotherapeutic accompaniment of grieving children and adolescents. In: German Society for Behavioral Therapy (DGVT) e. V., further education and training. Archive of professional articles, 2012, accessed May 12, 2014, p. 6.

[2] Mattias Günther's concept of mourning tasks (validation: recognizing the grief, reducing complexity: enabling communication and progression: perceiving resources) refers to Witt-Loers alongside Robert F. Antoch. (Cf. Monika Marose: Review of Matthias Günther: Death is a door. Pastoral care with grieving young people. With contributions by Jutta Rühlemann and Peter Noß-Kolbe. Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-62008-3 , p. 3 In: Bibor. Bonn Evangelical Institute for Vocational Religious Education (ed.), Reviews on the BRU.)