A comprehensive and up-to-date handbook that surveys the field of grief therapy. With contributions from leading international scholars and practitioners, it covers: Foundational matters such as clinical presentations in bereavement, the conceptualization of grief therapy and its evidence base; Distinctive approaches to grief therapy including existential therapy, art therapy, CBT and narrative, psychodynamic and meaning-based approaches; Specific circumstances of death such as violent death and suicide, and particular populations such bereaved parents and grieving children; Professional issues such as training in grief therapy and therapist self-care. The handbook is designed with students and practitioners in mind, with vivid case studies that bring theory and practice to life, key-point summaries at the end of each chapter and recommendations for further reading on each topic.
When she isn't eavesdropping on family gossip or gazing at taxidermy squirrels in smoky dives, Courtney Kersten charts the uncertainty of her midwestern homeland by looking to the stars and planets. As a teen she had plunged deep into the worlds of signs, symbols, and prophecy. But as her mother-her traveling companion into these spheres-lies ......
The Truth is in the Soil by Ioanna Sakellaraki is a 5-year exploration of grief as an elegy to her father and the dying tradition of mourning in Greece.
A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her terminal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret. Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom devoted his career to counseling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until ......
For more than fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers find comfort and rediscover hope after loss.Good Grief identifies ten stages of grief but, recognizing that grief is complex and deeply personal, defines no "right" way to grieve.
This fully updated manual offers a basis for understanding and responding to loss and grief - experiences which can present challenges for care professionals as well as those directly affected.
This three-book collection, Good Grief: The Complete Set, offers Good Grief, a foundation for understanding grief; The Good Grief Devotional, a collection of valuable insights for those who grieve; and The Good Grief Journal, a pathway for expressing, exploring, and growing from a significant loss.
Carrying Them with Us is a reflection on what pastors David Engelstad and Catherine Malotky have learned since the day their eight-week-old daughter died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
In A Grief Received, JL Gerhardt offers a personal, authentic, and practical approach to weathering grief with hope. Through nine practices grieving people can adopt to position themselves to receive the gifts of grief, Gerhardt sheds light on a path to transformation.
