Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner

by WORDEN J.W

Used - Like New

Genres: Psychology, Counselling, Nonfiction, Grief

328 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Jong Yik Khoon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book help me to understand about the grief and mourning process, especially about the tasks of mourning. However, the information about grief counselling and therapy is too little and general, for examples the writter wrotes "to leave client within a balance of positive and negative feeling...", but he didn't tell us how to do that.

[Janessa Nations · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was full of good info. Worden does a great job of explaining concepts and then following up with practical ideas regarding counseling through those concepts. A nice blend of theory and practicality.

[Sarah Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great nuts and bolts read for the fundamentals of grief counseling. I only wish it included a more multicultural discussion, as well as found a few passages (specifically around suicide) to be outdated.

[agustina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for my thesis.

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic and very readable text for my grief counseling course.

[Megan Bumgardner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid introduction to grief. Really appreciate Worden’s task theory.

[Maksym Tkachenko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must read for every professional who is even remotely dealing with grief work or loss

[Sippy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Skipped some paragraphs that I didn't find relevant for my purpose, which was a general introduction to the subject at hand. Did read most of it and found it insightful, accessible and well argumented and explained.

[Amirah]

Not my favorite Grief book, however it did provide some insightful conversations on different aspects of grief within specific communities such as child loss, HIV/AIDS, children losing a parent.