Full Description
Living with loss: From grief to wellbeing offers the latest research on adapting to and making sense of bereavement and non-death losses. It evaluates the effectiveness of a range of therapeutic approaches, including various therapeutic writing methods, that facilitate the integration of loss.
Living with loss, whether through death or other causes, is one of the most challenging experiences we face. The COVID-19 pandemic had intensified the impact of these losses and increased the need for professional support and constructive therapeutic approaches. This book offers perspectives on resilience, the need for presence in bereavement, and the assessment of functional impairment following COVID-19 losses. It examines the realities of bereaved students in higher education, presents and explains compassion-focused grief therapy and meaning-focused narrative construction, and evaluates the therapeutic process of grief recovery. This volume also includes a participatory research study into the effectiveness of writing through loss and is aimed at clinicians, grief counselors, multi-disciplinary researchers, lecturers and practitioners of Writing-for-wellbeing, and will also be of value for those grieving a loved one or facing a non-death loss.
The chapters in this book were originally published as two special issues in British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.
Contents
Introduction - Living with loss 1. Narratives of experiences of presence in bereavement: sources of comfort, ambivalence and distress 2. Supporting bereaved students in higher education: student perspectives 3. How are worriers particularly sensitive to grief? Tonic immobility as a mediating factor 4. Determination of resilience factors in individuals who tested COVID-19 positive 5. Grief and functional impairment following COVID-19 loss in a treatment-seeking sample: the mediating role of meaning 6. The impact of expressive storytelling on grieving: how narrative writing can help us actively and effectively process and reconcile the loss of a loved one 7. These roots that bind us: using writing to process grief and reconstruct the self in chronic illness 8. Healing wounds: exploring the hyphen in son-father relations as an adult child of an alcoholic 9. Grief tending through the wilderness: toward a poetic consciousness for adult survivors of childhood trauma 10. Braiding western and eastern cultural rituals in bereavement: an autoethnography of healing the pain of prolonged grief 11. The literature of loss: elegy writing as a therapeutic strategy for coping with grief 12. Grief memoirs and the reordering of life: on resilience, loneliness, and writing 13. A tale of two widows: investigating meaning-making and identity development through writing in the face of grief 14. Compassion-focused grief therapy 15. Meaning-oriented narrative reconstruction: navigating the complexities of bereaved families 16. Assimilation in bereavement: charting the process of grief recovery in the case of Sophie 17. Rewriting grief following bereavement and non-death loss: a pilot writing-for-wellbeing study
