The Grief and Bereavement Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students with information on the range of Grief and Bereavement books produced by Routledge, Psychology Press, and also by Guilford Press.

Subjects covered by this Arena include: Grief and Trauma Counseling, bereavement, suicide, and death studies/thanatology.

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Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved

Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved

Techniques of Grief Therapy is an indispensable guidebook to the most inventive and inspirational interventions in grief and bereavement counseling and therapy. Individually, each technique emphasizes creativity and practicality. As a whole, they capture the richness of practices in the field and the innovative approaches that clinicians in diverse settings have developed, in some cases over decades, to effectively address the needs of the bereaved.

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Borrowed Narratives

Borrowed Narratives

What do Dexter King, Condoleeza Rice, Mackenzie King, Corazon Aquino, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Cosby, Tony Dungy, Theodore Roosevelt, George H. W. and Barbara Bush, Caroline Kennedy, Arthur Ashe, Lady Bird Johnson, Colin Powell and C. S. Lewis have in common?

They all have significant grief experiences that have shaped their lives in dramatic ways, stories that have also shaped our lives.

Grieving individuals, through "borrowing narratives," look for inspiration in biographic, historical and memoir accounts of political and religious leaders, celebrities, sports figures, and cultural icons.

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The Shame of Death, Grief, and Trauma

The Shame of Death, Grief, and Trauma

Shame is a common and pervasive feature of the human response to death and other losses, yet this often goes unrecognized due to a reluctance to acknowledge and confront it.

This book intends to expose shame for what it is, allowing clinicians to see that it is the central psychological force in the understanding of death and mourning.

Kauffman and his fellow authors explore the psychology of shame via observation, reflection, theory, and practice in order to demonstrate the significant role it can play in our processing of grief, death, and trauma.

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