Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy

Grieving over death is an innate, vital process that most people are able to experience and emerge from in a healthy manner. This revised third edition offers new counselling techniques, incorporating a refined basic model of mourning, and added information on special types of mourning including children's violent death, grief and the elderly, and anticipatory grief.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Attachment, Loss and the Experience of Grief; Understanding the Mourning Process; Grief Counselling: Facilitating Uncomplicated Grief; Abnormal Grief Reactions: Complicated Mourning; Grief Therapy: Resolving Complicated Mourning; Grieving Special Types of Losses; Grief and Family Systems; The Counsellor's Own Grief; Training for Grief Counselling.

Reviews

'An excellent down-to-earth account of grief counselling and therapy containing a wealth of information and advice.' - Tony Whitehead, Age and Ageing 'This practical, easy to read, and well concentrated book certainly should be read by all healthcare professionals but in addition is highly recommended for volunteer bereavement counsellors'. - Derek Nuttall, Cruse (www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk)