Grief Counseling - Adult Books

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21. Love and Loss

    The Roots of Grief and its Complications

    By Colin Murray Parkes

    Loving and grieving are two sides of the same coin: we cannot have one without risking the other. Only by understanding the nature and pattern of loving can we begin to understand the problems of grieving. Conversely, the loss of a loved person can teach us much about the nature of love. Love and...

    Published September 11th 2008 by Routledge
22. Suicide

    Strategies and Interventions for Reduction and Prevention

    Edited by Stephen Palmer

    All practitioners working in the caring and helping professions face many challenges and questions when dealing with suicidal clients: Is this client being serious? Can I do more? What should I do? Should I refer on? Should I break confidentiality? Have I assessed this client correctly? Both...

    Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
23. Handbook of Thanatology

    The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement

    Edited by David E. Balk

    If ever there was an area requiring that the research-practice gap be bridged, surely it occurs where thanatologists engage with people dealing with human mortality and loss. The field of thanatology - the study of death and dying - is a complex, multidisciplinary area that...

    Published October 3rd 2007 by Routledge
24. The Art of Grief

    The Use of Expressive Arts in a Grief Support Group

    Edited by J. Earl Rogers

    Series: Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement

    Art and other expressive therapies are increasingly used in grief counseling, not only among children and adolescents, but throughout the developmental spectrum. Creative activities are commonly used in group and individual psychotherapy programs, but it is only relatively recently that these...

    Published June 7th 2007 by Routledge
25. Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy

    When the Music Stops, a Dream Dies

    Edited by Thelma Duffey

    Get the tools to help the grief that comes when a dream diesEvery person at one time or another suffers when his or her dreams are shattered. Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy: When the Music Stops, a Dream Dies provides truly innovative approaches to therapeutically help individuals...

    Published June 6th 2007 by Routledge
26. Surviving and Transcending a Traumatic Childhood

    The Dark Thread

    By Linda Skogrand, John DeFrain, Nikki DeFrain, Jean Jones

    A powerful guide to transcending childhood trauma—from the people who’ve done itIt’s like a dark thread woven through a piece of cloth: You can’t pull it out without unraveling the whole thing. And it shows up here and there among all the other threads.Surviving and Transcending a Traumatic...

    Published May 10th 2007 by Routledge
27. Remember Me

    Constructing Immortality - Beliefs on Immortality, Life, and Death

    Edited by Margaret Mitchell

    Remember Me brings together contributors from around the world with unique insight on the ways in which one's relationship with loved ones continues, endures, and perhaps even grows after death. Much of the available literature speaks of healthy bereavement as letting go of the deceased and moving...

    Published January 29th 2007 by Routledge
28. Pet Loss and Human Emotion, second edition

    A Guide to Recovery, 2nd Edition

    By Cheri Barton Ross, Jane Baron-Sorensen

    This updated edition of Pet Loss and Human Emotion is a step-by-step guide to leading clients through this special kind of grief. Includes resources and a section on pet loss and natural disasters. As society accepts that grieving over the death of a loved one is not only normal, but healthy and...

    Published January 22nd 2007 by Taylor & Francis
29. Violent Death

    Resilience and Intervention Beyond the Crisis

    Edited by Edward K. Rynearson

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    This book pulls together a definitive collection of work on the theory and practice of clinical, spiritual, and emotional support after the experience of violent death - counseling beyond the crisis. Over the past decade, there have been countless publications devoted to crisis response, crisis...

    Published October 10th 2006 by Routledge
30. Music of the Soul

    Composing Life Out of Loss

    By Joy S. Berger

    Series: Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement

    Music of the Soul guides the reader through principles, techniques, and exercises for incorporating music into grief counseling, with the end goal of further empowering the grieving person. Music has a unique ability to elicit a whole range of powerful emotional responses in people - even so far...

    Published September 7th 2006 by Routledge