Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner 4th Edition
Author(s): J. William Worden (Author)
Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc
Publication Date: 11 Aug. 2008
Edition: 4th
Language: English
Print length: 328 pages
ISBN-10: 0826101208
ISBN-13: 9780826101204
Book Description
In this updated and revised fourth edition of his classic text, Dr. Worden presents his most recent thinking on bereavement drawn from extensive research, clinical work, and the best of the new literature. Besides addressing a number of new topics, the book includes the best vignettes from the first three editions to bring bereavement issues to life for students and practitioners.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Worden… has again provided mental health professionals with a superb guide describing specific principles and procedures that may be helpful in working with bereaved clients undergoing normal or abnormal grief reactions… an extremely practical book and an invaluable resource.” –Contemporary Psychology “This book is the ‘Bible’ for those involved in the field of bereavement work…It is a straightforward, tightly focused, practical, soundly reasoned, compact working text.” –William M. Lamers, Jr., MD., The Lamers Medical Group “If you had one book dealing with grief counseling available to you, this is the one you should select.” –Caregiver Quarterly”
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About the Author
J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP, is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and holds academic appointments at the Harvard Medical School and at the Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology in California. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study, based at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Recipient of 5 major NIH grants, his research and clinical work over 40 years has centered on issues of life-threatening illness and life-threatening behavior.
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