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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.
Practitioner Perspectives – Maps, Journeys and Destinations
Practitioner Perspectives – Maps, Journeys and Destinations
This book has brought together contemporary ideas about loss and grief and presented a model for practitioner engagement with life-changing experiences. While the dominant focus has been on therapeutic practice, the theoretical perspectives and the proposed ways of working with grieving people are widely applicable in health and social care settings. This chapter will review the place of loss in practice by considering:
- loss and its place within health and social care
- a model and working tool
- values and objectives in working with loss.
The challenge for practitioners working with grief is to apply knowledge and skill with awareness of the wide individual variations in loss response. This is personally demanding and if undertaken without ...
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