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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.
Engaging with the Grief Narrative – Focus on Resilience
Engaging with the Grief Narrative – Focus on Resilience
The concept of resilience is a comparatively new lens through which reactions to bereavement and other life losses are being viewed. Traditional research and literature have been concerned with risk and sought to address and redress the unsatisfactory mental health consequences of grief. However, it has become increasingly clear that a focus on what enables people to survive and grow through adversity is equally important to our understanding of, and clinical engagement with, grief. Seligman (1998: unpaginated) advocates this new perspective: ‘Psychology is not just about the study of weakness and damage, it is also the study of strength and virtue. Treatment is not just fixing what ...
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