Educational and therapeutic manual "Life after loss"
The educational and therapeutic manual "Life after loss, psychological counselling of complex requests: grief and loss" reveals the basics of the psychology of loss. The manual contains material, practical techniques for providing psychological assistance to all those affected by extreme situations and methods of emergency counselling, and addresses issues related to loss and trauma.
Particular attention is paid to forms and methods of working with the stages of bereavement, how to talk about death with adults and children, and how to support people you know who are bereaved.
The textbook consists of theoretical, psychodiagnostic and psychotherapeutic parts Current concepts of mourning and pain treatment are explained in the context of theories of development, affect, loss and trauma;
Grief therapy and self-help for the bereaved are defined.
The educational and therapeutic manual "Life after loss, psychological counselling of complex requests: grief and loss" is recommended for psychologists, social workers and university students
and anyone interested in psychological assistance to people experiencing grief and loss.
CONTENTS
FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER 1. GRIEF AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS. PSYCHOLOGICAL PICTURE OF NORMAL GRIEF. SYMPTOMS OF GRIEF AND ITS CRITICAL PERIODS. WORKING WITH THE FEELING OF LOSS
CHAPTER 2. STAGES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STAGES OF GRIEF. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND AGE-SPECIFIC FEATURES OF CHILDREN'S GRIEF. LIFE AFTER LOSS. TRAUMATIC GRIEF. SECTION 3. COUNSELLING A BEREAVED CLIENT. GRIEF OF LOSS AS A PROCESS. STAGES AND TASKS OF GRIEF
SECTION 4. CAUSES OF MENTAL DISORDERS DUE TO THE LOSS AND SUDDEN DEATH OF A LOVED ONE. THE BYSTANDER TO SUICIDE. PECULIARITIES OF EXPERIENCING THE DEATH OF A CHILD
CHAPTER 5. FORMS OF COMPLICATED LOSS SYNDROME. DIVORCE AFTER THE LOSS OF A CHILD. GRIEF OF WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS. AUTOMATIC SELF-HEALING
CHAPTER 6. WORKING WITH ADDICTIONS. COPING WITH GRIEF USING THE "DROWNING GRIEF IN ALCOHOL" SCHEME
CHAPTER 7. BEREAVEMENT THERAPY. RESOURCE STATES. RECOVERY OF A PSYCHOLOGIST AFTER WORKING WITH CLIENTS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING GRIEF APPENDICES
