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This updated second edition of Working with Loss and Grief provides a model for practitioners working with those who are grieving a significant life loss. Making clear connections between theory and practice, the ‘Range of Response to Loss’ model provides a theoretical ‘compass’ for recognising the wide variability in reaction to loss and the ‘Adult Attitude to Grief’ scale is a tool for ‘mapping’ individual grief and its change over time, providing an individual grief profile. Together these offer a framework for practitioners to: -listen to stories of grief told by clients -identify common patterns in grief -recognize individual difference in grief response -make assessments -prompt therapeutic dialogue -guide therapeutic focus and -evaluate outcomes. This edition includes: a new chapter on ‘The RRL Model and a Pluralistic Approach to Counselling’; two new case studies; additional content on vulnerability; new grief assessment tools and systems, and the latest research. Dr Linda Machin is Honorary Research Fellow at Keele University, having been a Lecturer in Social Work and Counselling at Keele. She established a counselling service for the bereaved in North Staffordshire and continues to work as a researcher and freelance trainer.
Listening to Personal Grief Narratives
Listening to Personal Grief Narratives
The last chapter provided an overview of a pluralistic therapeutic approach to working with the Range of Response to Loss model of grief. Through the use of client case studies, this chapter will consider in more detail the process of engaging with the starting points in the story of loss – what happened and its impact on the client. The RRL model as a theoretical compass or the AAG scale as a story-telling structure will provide the conceptual base for exploring the dynamic nature of grief in these cases. A person-centred approach will define the ‘way of being’ in the therapeutic context and the external and internal narrative will be the means of examining the ...
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