Best Practices in Counseling Grief and Loss: Finding Benefit from Trauma

Grief may be a primary presenting concern of clients or may form a background to another presenting concern. In either case, use of best practices in assessing and treating grief is essential. In this article I review what best practices are in general and in assessment and treatment. I also evaluat...

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Published inJournal of Mental Health Counseling Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 33 - 45
Main Author Altmaier, Elizabeth M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Alexandria American Mental Health Counselors Association 01.01.2011
Subjects
Best practice
Best Practices
Bias
Clinical Experience
Counseling
Counseling Effectiveness
Counselor Client Relationship
Death & dying
Evidence Based Practice
Grief
Grief counseling
Grief counselling
Interpersonal Relationship
Memory
Methods
Outcomes of Treatment
Religion
Spirituality
United States
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Summary:Grief may be a primary presenting concern of clients or may form a background to another presenting concern. In either case, use of best practices in assessing and treating grief is essential. In this article I review what best practices are in general and in assessment and treatment. I also evaluate ways to measure grief and describe domains of the grief experience. The article also discusses controversies within the literature on grief counseling, including the potential for deterioration after treatment. It concludes with a view of counseling grief that promotes finding benefit from trauma.
ISSN:1040-2861
2163-5749
DOI:10.17744/mehc.33.1.tu9wx5w3t2145122