Grief counselling and grief therapy : a handbook for the mental health practitioner /
J. William Worden.
- 4th ed.
- London, UK ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- xiv, 314 p. : pbk, 23.5cm
Introduction -- Attachment, Loss, and the Experience of Grief -- Understanding the Mourning Process -- The Mourning Process: Mediators of Mourning -- Grief Counselling: Facilitating Uncomplicated Grief -- Abnormal Grief Reactions: Complicated Mourning -- Grief Therapy: Resolving Complicated Mourning -- Grieving Special Types of Losses -- Grief and Family Systems -- The Counsellor's Own Grief -- Training for Grief Counselling.
Grieving over death is an innate, vital process that most people are able to experience and emerge from in a healthy manner. In this revised edition, Worden offers new counselling techniques, incorporating a refined basic model of mourning, and added information on special types of mourning.