Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner, Fourth Edition

Dr. Worden presents the highly anticipated fourth edition to Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, the gold standard of grief therapy handbooks. The previous editions received worldwide acclaim for their sensitive, insightful, and practical approach to grief counseling. In this updated and revised fourth edition, Dr. Worden presents his most recent thinking on bereavement drawn from extensive research, clinical work, and the best of the new literature.

Key Features:

• New chapter, The Mourning Process: Mediators of Mourning, includes discussion on the personal and social variables that shape individual mourning processes
• Detailed guidelines and models for approaching special types of mourning, including suicide, sudden death, and miscarriage
• A new version of the "Task Model" to help the bereaved accomplish their "tasks of mourning"
• Guidelines to help therapists understand and work through their own experiences of grief

Comprehensive and highly organized, this text is useful to therapists just beginning to work in the field as well as seasoned practitioners