"Redundancy and unemployment bring with them a cluster of problems, financial, family, personal and social. 

Most people who lose their jobs go through something like a bereavement process. Having lost the clear daily structure and sense of purpose that a job gives, they are particularly prone to suffer from insecurity and low self-image."

In this article Peter Hicks unpacks some helpful things to know and say as you seek to support people who have been made redundant or find themselves out of work.

This article is an extract of Peter Hicks’ What Could I say? (IVP, 2000), used with kind permission from SPCK Publishing.