Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner, Fourth Edition

Designated a 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 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: The task model has been modified to account for new thinking and research findings in the field, including meaning making, resilience, and continuing bonds A new chapter on the Mediators of Mourning helps clinicians to understand what accounts for individual differences in adapting to the death of a loved one Looks at recent controversies in the field including the best way to understand complicated bereavement and the efficacy of grief counseling and therapy Presents the vital distinction between grief and trauma, and highlights different intervention approaches for each Comprehensive and highly organized, this text is useful to therapists just beginning to work in the field as well as seasoned practitioners. Contents......Page 10 Preface......Page 14 What Is the Nature of Complicated Bereavement?......Page 16 Disenfranchised Grief......Page 17 Continuing Bonds......Page 18 Meaning Making......Page 19 Resilience......Page 20 Trauma and Grief......Page 21 Attachment Theory......Page 28 Is Grief a Disease?......Page 31 Normal Grief......Page 32 Grief and Depression......Page 46 2 Understanding the Mourning Process......Page 52 Tasks of Mourning......Page 54 Dual-Process Model of Grieving......Page 68 Mediator 1: Who the Person Who Died Was......Page 72 Mediator 2: The Nature of the Attachment......Page 73 Mediator 3: How the Person Died......Page 74 Mediator 4: Historical Antecedents......Page 78 Mediator 5: Personality Variables......Page 79 Mediator 6: Social Variables......Page 88 Caution......Page 90 When Is Mourning Finished?......Page 91 4 Grief Counseling: Facilitating Uncomplicated Grief......Page 98 Goals of Grief Counseling......Page 99 Identifying the At-Risk Bereaved......Page 102 Counseling Principles and Procedures......Page 104 Useful Techniques......Page 120 The Use of Medication......Page 123 Grief Counseling in Groups......Page 124 Facilitating Grief Through Funeral Ritual......Page 133 Does Grief Counseling Work?......Page 135 Why People Fail to Grieve......Page 142 How Grief Goes Wrong......Page 149 An Emerging Diagnosis of Complicated Grief......Page 150 An Existing Model of Complicated Mourning......Page 152 Diagnosing Complicated Mourning......Page 161 6 Grief Therapy: Resolving Complicated Mourning......Page 168 Goals and Setting of Grief Therapy......Page 170 Procedures for Grief Therapy......Page 171 Special Considerations for Grief Therapy......Page 182 Techniques and Timing......Page 184 Dreams in Grief Counseling and Therapy......Page 186 Some Considerations......Page 187 Evaluating Results......Page 189 Suicide......Page 194 Counseling Survivors of Suicide Victims......Page 198 Sudden Death......Page 202 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)......Page 207 Miscarriages......Page 210 Stillbirths......Page 212 Abortion......Page 214 Anticipatory Grief......Page 216 AIDS......Page 221 8 Grief and Family Systems......Page 232 Death of a Child......Page 237 Children Whose Parents Die......Page 245 Family Intervention Approaches......Page 251 Grief and the Elderly......Page 254 Family Versus Individual Needs......Page 259 9 The Counselor’s Own Grief......Page 266 Loss History......Page 269 Stress and Burnout......Page 270 10 Training for Grief Counseling......Page 276 Grief Sketches 1–18......Page 279 Appendix......Page 298 Bibliography......Page 300 A......Page 320 C......Page 321 D......Page 322 G......Page 323 L......Page 325 N......Page 326 S......Page 327 Z......Page 329

"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

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:

• The task model has been modified to account for new thinking and research findings in the field, including meaning making, resilience, and continuing bonds
  
• A new chapter on the Mediators of Mourning helps clinicians to understand what accounts for individual differences in adapting to the death of a loved one
  
• Looks at recent controversies in the field including the best way to understand complicated bereavement and the efficacy of grief counseling and therapy
  
• Presents the vital distinction between grief and trauma, and highlights different intervention approaches for each

Comprehensive and highly organized, this text is useful to therapists just beginning to work in the field as well as seasoned practitioners.

Contemporary Psychology

Worden ... has again provided mental health professionals with a superb guide describing specific principles and procedures that may be helpful in working with bereaved clients undergoing normal or abnormal grief reactions ... an extremely practical book and an invaluable resource.

Named 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:

• The task model has been modified to account for new thinking and research findings in the field, including meaning making, resilience, and continuing bonds
• A new chapter on the Mediators of Mourning helps clinicians to understand what accounts for individual differences in adapting to the death of a loved one
• Looks at recent controversies in the field including the best way to understand complicated bereavement and the efficacy of grief counseling and therapy
• Presents the vital distinction between grief and trauma, and highlights different intervention approaches for each

Comprehensive and highly organized, this text is useful to therapists just beginning to work in the field as well as seasoned practitioners.

Named 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: The task model has been modified to account for new thinking and research findings in the field, including meaning making, resilience, and continuing bonds A new chapter on the Mediators of Mourning helps clinicians to understand what accounts for individual differences in adapting to the death of a loved one Looks at recent controversies in the field including the best way to understand complicated bereavement and the efficacy of grief counseling and therapy Presents the vital distinction between grief and trauma, and highlights different intervention approaches for each Comprehensive and highly organized, this text is useful to therapists just beginning to work in the field as well as seasoned practitioners. "Dr. Worden presents the fourth edition of Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy. Key features: includes discussion on the personal and social variables that shape individual mourning processors; detailed guidelines and models for approaching special types of mourning, including suicide, sudden death, and miscarriage; a new version of "Task Model" to help the bereaved accomplish their "tasks of mourning"; and guidelines to help therapists understand and work through their own experiences of grief." --Résumé de l'éditeur Attachment, loss, and the experience of grief attachment theory Understanding the mourning process The mourning process: mediators of mourning Grief counseling: facilitating uncomplicated grief Abnormal grief reactions: complicated mourning Grief therapy: resolving complicated mourning Grieving special types of losses Grief and family systems The counselor's own grief Training for grief counseling. In this edition, Dr Worden presents his thinking on bereavement drawn from extensive research, clinical work, and literature written since the previous edition. Besides addressing a number of new topics, the book includes the best vignettes from the first three editions to bring bereavement issues to life for students and practitioners Before one can fully comprehend the impact of a loss and the human behavior associated with it, one must have some understanding of the meaning of attachment.