Working with Loss and Grief

A Theoretical and Practical Approach

Linda Machin

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781446292990
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

This updated second edition of Working with Loss and Grief provides a model for practitioners working with those who are grieving a significant life loss. Making clear connections between theory and practice, the ?Range of Response to Loss? model provides a theoretical ?compass? for recognising the wide variability in reaction to loss and the ?Adult Attitude to Grief? scale is a tool for ?mapping? individual grief and its change over time, providing an individual grief profile. Together these offer a framework for practitioners to:

-listen to stories of grief told by clients

-identify common patterns in grief

-recognize individual difference in grief response

-make assessments

-prompt therapeutic dialogue

-guide therapeutic focus and

-evaluate outcomes.

This edition includes: a new chapter on ?The RRL Model and a Pluralistic Approach to Counselling?; two new case studies; additional content on vulnerability; new grief assessment tools and systems, and the latest research.

Dr Linda Machin is Honorary Research Fellow at Keele University, having been a Lecturer in Social Work and Counselling at Keele. She established a counselling service for the bereaved in North Staffordshire and continues to work as a researcher and freelance trainer.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustration List
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Exploring the Landscape of Loss
• 3 Establishing Theoretical Bearings
• 4 Exploring Therapeutic Perspectives
• 5 A Model for Understanding Grief – a Compass and Map
• 6 Exploring the Individual Territory of Loss – Mapping Grief
• 7 The RRL Model and a Pluralistic Approach to Counselling
• 8 Listening to Personal Grief Narratives
• 9 Engaging with the Grief Narrative – Focus on Vulnerability
• 10 Engaging with the Grief Narrative – Focus on Resilience
• 11 Practitioner Perspectives – Maps, Journeys and Destinations
• Appendix 1: Adult Attitude to Grief scale
• Appendix 2: Practice Record Sheet
• Appendix 3: Adult Attitude to Grief scale (Learning Disability 2013)
• References
• Index