Series: Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement

Helping Grieving People -- When Tears Are Not Enough is a handbook for care providers who offer service, support, and counselling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. This book also serves as an excellent text for academic courses and staff development training. The author discusses grief as it affects various relationships and explores different intervention and support strategies,...

Working With the Bereaved summarises the major themes in bereavement research and clinical work, and uses the authors’ own cutting-edge research to show mental-health practitioners how to integrate these themes into their practice. It provides clinicians with a framework for exploring their own emotional and intellectual assumptions about loss and bereavement, and it goes on to summarise state-of-the-art thinking in...

Grief counselling and therapy have been revolutionised by the recognition that adaptive grieving commonly involves retaining bonds with the deceased rather than relinquishing them. However, guidelines for integrating this shift into professional practice have been scarce. In this groundbreaking volume, leading bereavement scholars Robert Neimeyer and Edith Steffen provide a rich trove of therapeutic procedures to help grieving clients preserve...