Techniques of Grief Therapy Assessment and Intervention [Hardcover]

Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment and Intervention continues where the acclaimed Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereavedleft off, offering a whole new set of innovative approaches to grief therapy to address the needs of the bereaved. This new volume includes a variety of specific and practical therapeutic techniques, each conveyed in concrete detail and anchored in an illustrative case study. Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment and Intervention also features an entire new section on assessment of various challenges in coping with loss, with inclusion of the actual scales and scoring keys to facilitate their use by practitioners and researchers. Providing both an orientation to bereavement work and an indispensable toolkit for counseling survivors of losses of many kinds, this book belongs on the shelf of both experienced clinicians and those just beginning to delve into the field of grief therapy.

Part I: Framing the Work.1. Toward a Developmental Theory of Grief Robert A. Neimeyer and Joanne Cacciatore 2. Grief is a Form of Love M. Katherine Shear 3. The Dual Process Model in Grief Therapy Emmanuelle Zech 4. Traumatic Bereavement Camille B. Wortman and Laurie Anne Pearlman 5. Finding the Evidence: Use of the CareSearch Site in Bereavement Care Jennifer Tieman and Sarah Hayman Part II: Assessing Bereavement 6. Hogan Grief Reaction Checklist (HGRC) Nancy S. Hogan and Lee A. Schmidt 7. Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES) Jason M. Holland 8. Meaning of Loss Codebook (MLC) Evgenia Milman, Robert A. Neimeyer, and James Gillies 9. Grief and Meaning Reconstruction Inventory (GMRI) Robert A. Neimeyer, James Gillies and Evgenia Milman 10. Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL) Michael Caserta, DlC(