Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy. This item is unavailable.Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy

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, applying them to the lived experience of bereaved clients. Best applied practices are examined, and the book quickly becomes a go-to resource for typical and complicated facilitation of grief. Topics include:

* Clinical practices for natural and complicated grief processes
* What went wrong with Kubler-Ross stage theory of grief
* The functions of emotions in grief
* The impact of death on the family
* Death, grief, and spirituality
* Loneliness and isolation
* The social and cultural ceremonies of death
* Meaning making and growth following loss

Jackson Rainer, Ph.D., ABPP is a nationally known board-certified psychologist who is respected as a psychotherapist, teacher, and supervisor. In rural and urban settings, he has directed community mental health institutions and agencies, practiced psychotherapy with children, adults, couples, and families, and taught in university and professional settings for more than 25 years. In addition to being the Head of the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Valdosta State University, one of Georgia s regional universities, he serves as a national consultant for psychotherapy and supervision.