Description
Compassion-Based Approaches in Loss and Grief introduces clinicians to a wide array of strategies and frameworks for engaging clients throughout the loss experience, particularly when those experiences have a protracted course.
In the book, clinicians and researchers from around the world and from a variety of fields explore ways to cultivate compassion and how to implement compassion-based clinical practices specifically designed to address loss, grief, and bereavement.
Students, scholars, and mental health and healthcare professionals will come away from this important book with a deepened understanding of compassion-based approaches and strategies for enhancing distress tolerance, maintaining focus, and identifying the clinical interventions best suited to clients’ needs.
Table of Contents
Part One: Foundations 1. Coming to Compassion 2. An Evolutionary and Compassion-Based Approach to Yearning and Grief 3. Foundational Aspects of Grief 4. A review and synthesis of current research in compassion, loss, and grief 5. Compassion Viewed through a Sociological Lens 6. Spheres of Compassionate Engagement and Response Part Two: Training in the Components of Compassion 7. What is Compassion Training? 8. Mindful Awareness: A Cultivated Journey for Clinicians and Practitioners 9. Being with Grief and Loss: The Foundational Role of Therapeutic Presence 10. Common Humanity: Recognition of Interconnectivity among Health Professionals and Their Patients 11. Self-Compassion for Clinicians Part Three: Clinical Applications 12. Compassion-Focused Grief Therapy 13. The GRACE Model of Compassionate Response 14. Compassion Self-Care in Loss and Grief: Mindful-Compassion Art-based Therapy 15. Dignity and Compassion in End-of-Life Care 16. Shame in the Context of Grief 17. Understanding and Healing Hoarding as a Resistance to Grief 18. Compassion in Situations of Nonfinite Loss and Chronic Sorrow 19. Mindful and Self-Compassionate Embodied Grief Practices 20. Tales from the Field: Self-Compassion as a Resource for Supporting Grief 21. Compassion-Focused Imagery and Embodiment Practices 22. Compassion-Focused Chair Work for Grief Part Four: Organizational and Structural Approaches 23. Challenges to Compassion in Healthcare: A Systems Approach 24. Compassion in Organizations and Political Structures 25. Compassionate Cities for End-of-Life Care
