Overview

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.