Jackson Rainer – Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy

Jackson Rainer – Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy

The process of grief does not change a person as much as it reveals another part of the self 

Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy is a reader friendly book with tools, techniques, and compass points to help others with the experience of grief. Going beyond the well-known but outmoded stage theories of grief, this book explores and illustrates new models of treatment, and applying them to the lives of bereaved clients.

What you’ll learn in Life After Loss

Topics include:

• Clinical practices for natural and complicated grief processes
• Changing stage theories of grief
• Emotions in grief
• Impact of death on the family
• Death, grief, and spirituality
• Loneliness and isolation
• Social and cultural ceremonies of death
• Meaning making and growth following loss

Objectives

• Define contemporary changes in approaches to grief counseling
• Apply current research to typical grief and bereavement therapy practices
• Identify clinical issues of the grieving client
• Describe natural and typical responses to loss
• Gain interventions and best practices for grief counseling and therapy

Outline

• Processes of grief
• Typical vs complicated grief
• The history of Kubler-Ross and the shift to a new paradigm
• Interventions
  • Resilience
  • Meaning-Making
  • Healing

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