Treatment of Complicated Mourning

by Therese A. Rando

This is the first book to focus specifically on complicated mourning, often referred to as pathological, unresolved, or abnormal grief. It provides caregivers with practical therapeutic strategies and specific interventions that are necessary when traditional grief counseling is insufficient. The goal is to turn 'complicated' into 'uncomplicated' mourning. Rando examines the unique issues in bereavement situations that put mourners at high risk for complicated mourning. She synthesizes the literature and integrates it with specific treatment approaches.

Genres: Psychology, Grief, Nonfiction

751 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1993

About the author

Dr. Rando is an award-winning clinical psychologist, traumatologist, and thanatologist in Rhode Island, USA. She is the Clinical Director of The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss, which provides mental health services through psychotherapy, training/education, supervision, and consultation, and specializes in: loss and grief; traumatic stress; and the psychosocial care of persons with physical injury, serious acute medical conditions, or with chronic, life-threatening, or terminal illness, and their loved ones. Dr. Rando has consulted, conducted research, provided therapy, written, and lectured internationally in areas related to loss, grief, illness, injury, dying, death, bereavement, disaster, and trauma. She also has provided expert witness testimony in legal proceedings involving illness, injury, or death.

Reviews

[Diana Winslow MSW ACSW · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of the first anthologies of resources for identifying and responding to complications related to grief and ensuing processes. Very helpful springboard to this info, which had been dominated by Kubler-Ross stages.
At the point in time of this publication, Dr. Rando was not one to tour with talks on the book, and this limited access to her live knowledge and Q&A. I think her office said she had 1-2 seminars annually.
The Internet has surely changed this.
Grateful for the diversification this book provided. As a practitioner this was helpful in a number of ways, personally and professionally.

[Grace Kimmerling · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful and insightful.