Grief Counseling Homework Planner [Paperback]

Phil Rich (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471433187 | ISBN-13: 978-0471433187 | Publication Date: August 24, 2001 | Edition: 1

Help bereaved clients deal with and work through a difficult time in their lives

Grief Counseling Homework Planner provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to help clients better understand their grief and the grieving process.

This easy-to-use sourcebook features:

• 63 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues encountered in grief therapy
• A quick-reference format-the interactive assignments are organized around the most typical stages of the grieving process
• Expert guidance on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises
• Homework that enables clients to work through the issues surrounding their loss through reflective thought, personal management, problem resolution, and self-healing
• A computer disk that contains all the exercises in a word-processing format-allowing you to customize them to suit you and your clients' unique styles and needs

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Help bereaved clients deal with and work through a difficult time in their lives

Grief Counseling Homework Planner provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to help clients better understand their grief and the grieving process.

This easy-to-use sourcebook features:

• 63 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues encountered in grief therapy
• A quick-reference format–the interactive assignments are organized around the most typical stages of the grieving process
• Expert guidance on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises
• Homework that enables clients to work through the issues surrounding their loss through reflective thought, personal management, problem resolution, and self-healing
• A computer disk that contains all the exercises in a word-processing format–allowing you to customize them to suit you and your clients’ unique styles and needs

About the Author

PHIL RICH, EdD, MSW, is a clinical psychologist and social worker. He is also the Series Editor for Wiley's Healing Journey series.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 24, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471433187
• ISBN-13: 978-0471433187
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful for therapists and grief counselors, April 2, 2002

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This review is from: Grief Counseling Homework Planner (Paperback)

I found this is a very useful and direct way to help clients suffering loss in their lives. It offers a useful way for therapists, counselors, and clients to understand and think about grief work, important information about the grief process and its many changing aspects over time, and many writing and homework exercises that clients can work on between (and in) sessions, which can also help counselors decide and structure how to best work with different clients at different stages in their grief. Recommended!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of Grief Counseling Homework Planner, March 1, 2006

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Marcia L. Howland (Tulsa, OK USA) - See all my reviews
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Part of my career involvement is helping people deal with loss. The Grief Counseling Homework Planner is a wonderful tool to help individuals and families to deal with the grief from any kind of loss. I would recommend that it be used advisedly with someone who understands the healing process and can facilitate those who may need guidance through their grief journey. I use parts of it in my work as a hospice chaplain and with community support groups.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A comprehensive set of homework tasks for grief work, September 25, 2009

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If you're looking for PRACTICAL ideas to help clients who are processing grief and loss, this is an extremely useful book. There are homework exercises for every stage of the grief process - from acclimation/adjustment, through emotional immersion/deconstruction, to reclamation/reconciliation - with summaries of the theoretical underpinnings throughout. The accompanying CD-ROM allows easy print-out of any of the pages.