Product Description

Grieving over death is an innate, vital process that most people are able to experience and emerge from in a healthy manner.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46006 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

Review
An excellent down-to-earth account of grief counselling and therapy containing a wealth of information and advice. - Tony Whitehead, Age and Ageing

This practical, easy to read, and well concentrated book certainly should be read by all healthcare professionals but in addition is highly recommended for volunteer bereavement counsellors. - Derek Nuttall, Cruse (www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk)

From the Back Cover
Grieving over death is an innate, vital process that most people are able to experience and emerge from in a healthy manner.
In the revised Third Edition of Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy, J. William Worden offers new counselling techniques, incorporating a refined basic model of mourning, and added information on special types of mourning including:
· children's violent death
· grief and the elderly
· anticipatory grief

Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy is an essential resource for all those working with the bereaved.

About the Author
J. William Worden , PhD, holds academic appointments at Harvard Medical School and at the Rosemead School of Psychology in California. He is Co-Principal Investigator for the Boston Child Bereavement Study based at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Customer Reviews

Classic text, well used, highly recommended
I've been using this book in my clinical practice for 12 years, coming to buy it again now as one of my trainees has run off with it. It is a classic text in the field; readable, practical, drawing on sound humanistic and cognitive-behavioural principles and it works. It outlines "normal" grief with various theories as to the stages people pass through as they come to terms with bereavement. Worden then presents a range of complicated grief reactions and clear guidance for the therapist aiming to help someone stuck in their grief.

Please note that this is not a self-help manual.

Guide for use
Other reviews have looked at content of this book, which is excellent, so I will dwell on it here. This book is a sound tool for professonal use and together with some of Parkes work is cutting edge for clinical pratice. Unlike other reviews on this site, I would not advise this for use in terms of personal loss. Their are litrally hundreds of good books that can help for this but Worden's work is for professonal use and does not work well in the personal context.

excellent!!
Excellent, this book is helpful for all who wish to understand the grieving 'process'and potentially help themselves and/or others.
There is no such thing as a process when it comes to grief and this book only uses the word process as a learning guide.
worth it!