Vedovanza: tornare a sperare dopo il dolore.

[Autom. eng. transl.] The contribution intends to stop the attention on the educational aid that can open to hope those who have been affected by the loss of their spouse. The state of widowhood acquires peculiar notes, in accordance with its occurrence in a certain stage of the family life cycle rather than in another. In addition to the value component, overcoming pain requires processes of support and care. These indications, which have also been confirmed in the meetings with widows, make it possible to outline an educational path for mastering the situation of existential crisis, distinguishing between care and support. Care aims to enhance the subjective ability to take care of yourself again; it is a form of emotional-affective-spiritual support but also material and is intentionally oriented to the other, in order to arouse in the subject a movement of existential self-recovery.