Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, Fourth Edition: A Handbook for the Mental Health PractitionerNamed a 2013 Doody's Core Title! "In the fields of death education, research and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant....ALL of us, personally and professionally, are indebted to J. William Worden. From his work we may be just a bit wiser, a bit healthier, a bit more competent, and a lot more in touch with meaning (our own and those of others) for the sake of all who mourn." --Illness, Crisis, & Loss "Every helping professional will profit from Worden's treatment of uncomplicated and complicated mourning. Especially hopefully is his material on the many types of loss...I highly recommend Worden's book."--Ministry Recipient of The International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement Herman Feifel Award. Dr. Worden presents the highly anticipated fourth edition to Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, the gold standard of grief therapy handbooks. The previous editions, translated into 12 languages, received worldwide acclaim for their sensitive, insightful, and practical approach to grief counseling. In this updated and revised fourth edition, Dr. Worden presents his most recent thinking on bereavement drawn from extensive research, clinical work, and the best of the new literature. Key Features:
Comprehensive and highly organized, this text is useful to therapists just beginning to work in the field as well as seasoned practitioners. |
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... someone with whom the mourner is having an affair. If this affair is not widely known, the mourner will not be invited to participate in the funeral rituals and may not receive the social support that many people find helpful after a ...
... someone close. You may have had this type of regressive experience when you were a very young child on a shopping trip with your mother. You were in a department store and suddenly you looked up to find that she had disappeared. You ...
... Someone picks up the telephone and learns that a loved one or friend is dead. Even when the death is expected and follows a progressive deteriorating illness, when the phone call finally comes, it can still cause the survivor to ...
... someone to wake me and tell me I'm dreaming.” Another said, “The passing of my husband came as a shock although he had been sick for some time. You are never quite ready for it.” Confusion Many newly bereaved people say their thinking ...
Contents
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Mediators of Mourning | 57 |
Facilitating Uncomplicated Grief | 83 |
Complicated Mourning | 127 |
Resolving Complicated Mourning | 153 |
7 Grieving Special Types of Losses | 179 |
8 Grief and Family Systems | 217 |
9 The Counselors Own Grief | 251 |
10 Training for Grief Counseling | 261 |
Appendix | 283 |
Bibliography | 285 |
Index | 305 |
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