Bereavement Counseling: Pastoral Care for Complicated Grieving

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Get a unique insight into health, bereavement, and healing! Bereavement Counseling: Pastoral Care for Complicated Grieving is a practical guide to the assessment and treatment of complicated grief responses, using a pastoral approach that combines clinical and spiritual care. The book addresses current theory, observations, and experience, and examines changing approaches and developing... Read more

Get a unique insight into health, bereavement, and healing!

Bereavement Counseling: Pastoral Care for Complicated Grieving is a practical guide to the assessment and treatment of complicated grief responses, using a pastoral approach that combines clinical and spiritual care. The book addresses current theory, observations, and experience, and examines changing approaches and developing standards of practice. The author, an ordained minister with an extensive background in pastoral counseling, integrates spirituality into the grieving process by focusing on the partnership between spirituality and healing, the resources of spiritual practices, and the functions of counseling and spiritual/pastoral psychotherapy.

By providing usable treatment strategies, sharing standard interventions, and promoting technical skill for caregivers, Bereavement Counseling: Pastoral Care for Complicated Grieving places sustained emphasis on giving voice to grief and recovery. The author draws from more than 20 years’ experience in ministry, teaching, supervision, consultation, and therapy to present stories, vignettes, and poetry that give depth and life to the grieving process. These vignettes provide a unique insight into health, bereavement, and healing and create a living context for maintaining a person-centered focus that promotes meaning and leads to positive outcomes. The book provides templates as assessment and treatment planning aids and includes an extensive bibliography of up-to-date journal articles that reflect the latest research in the field.

Topics addressed in Bereavement Counseling: Pastoral Care for Complicated Grieving include:

universal grief processes and responses
dysfunctional grieving
therapies and treatment priorities
reorganization and recovery
how perceptions, thoughts, and belief influence care
and much more!

Bereavement Counseling: Pastoral Care for Complicated Grieving is a practical resource for clergy, pastoral care specialists, and anyone needing to help others bear with the pain of grief, process loss, gain new insight and meaning, and experience a renewed sense of healing and connection. Read less

Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Desire to Know More
Beginning Assumptions
The Larger Context
Aims and Purpose
Challenges
Sources and Approach
Overview
Chapter 1. Universal Grief Processes and Responses
In Every Life There is Gain and Loss
A Relational/Contextual View of Attachments and Loss
Types of Losses
The Universal, Normal Grief Process
A Loss and Recovery Model of Grief
Is the Grief Process the Same for Everyone?
Grief Trajectories and Variations Within the Normal Grief Response
Assessment of a Person’s Current Grieving Process
Management of the Normal Grieving Process
Summary
Chapter 2. When Grief Becomes Complicated
Stories of Complicated Grief
Is Grief Becoming More Complex?
A Definition of Complicated Grief
Stage-Specific Complications
General Risk Factors
People Who are Particularly At Risk
Assessing Complicated Grief Trajectories
More Experiences of Complicated Grieving
Summary
Chapter 3. Dysfunctional Grieving
The Initial Inquiry
Labeling Grief Responses
Locus of Impairment
Severity of Impairment
Dysfunctional Grieving Criteria
Individuals Who are Particularly at Risk
Strategies for Challenging Dysfunctional Behavior
Summary
Chapter 4. The Spiritual Side of Grief and Loss
Definition of Spirituality
Religious Spirituality
Spirituality and Wellness
Spiritual Activity
The Spiritual Component of Grief Work
Experiences of Spiritually Based Grief Complications
Spiritually Based Dysfunctional Grief
Individuals Particularly at Risk for Spiritually Based Complications
Stages of Spiritual Grief
Summary
Chapter 5. How Perceptions, Thoughts, and Beliefs Influence Care
Subjectivity, Vulnerability, and Professional Bias
Recognizing the Relational Feedback Loop
Common Myths and Misperceptions Concerning Grief and Loss
Problematic Implications
Recognizing Critical Care Points
Using Perceptions and Beliefs to Enhance Care
The Role of Consultation
Summary
Chapter 6. Therapies and Treatment Priorities
Types of Treatment
Loss-Focused Therapies
Adjunct Therapies
Longer-Term Grief Therapies
Multiple Therapies
Establishing Treatment Priorities
A Holistic Treatment Process
Summary
Chapter 7. Positive Strategies and Helpful Interventions
General Grief Resolution Strategies
Strategies for Telling the Grief Story
Strategies for Developing a Sense of Self
Strategies for Developing a Sense of Relationship
Strategies for Creating a Sense of Meaning
Strategies for Building Memories
Strategies for Recognizing Continuity of Being
Expressing Grief in Other Ways
Turning Around Unhelpful Grief Responses
Summary
Chapter 8. Reorganization and Reclaiming One’s Life
Reorganization Involves Change
Motivators
Decisions to Move Ahead
Challenges to Reorganization
Developing a Lifelong Habit of Learning
Reclaiming Life
Appendix A. Universal Grief Response
Appendix B. Possible Complications Surrounding Significant Loss
Appendix C. Identification of Risk Factors That May Lead to Complicated and Dysfunctional Grieving
Appendix D. Grief Trajectory Worksheet: Complicated/Dysfunctional Grief
Appendix E. Grief Response Service Wheel
Appendix F. Severity of Grief Response: Impairment Flow Sheet Template
Appendix G. Dysfunctional Grieving Criteria: Symptoms and Behavior That Can Indicate Dysfunctional Grieving
Bibliography
Index
Reference Notes Included

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Harold G. Koenig, Junietta B. Mccall

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