Creative interventions in grief and loss therapy : when the music stops, a dream dies / Thelma Duffey, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duffey, Thelma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief therapy.

Loss (Psychology).

Arts--Therapeutic use.

Arts.

Creative ability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Get the tools to help the grief that comes when a dream diesEvery person at one time or another suffers when his or her dreams are shattered. Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy: When the Music Stops, a Dream Dies provides truly innovative approaches to therapeutically help individuals work through and survive grief and loss. Leading experts explore creative interventions for common, yet emotionally devastating problems faced by those weathering the storms of grief after their dream has been destroyed. Therapists and counselors get the effective tools to creatively help people thr

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. When the Music Stops: Releasing the Dream; Chapter 2. When Clients Die: Using Storytelling, Journaling and Correspondence in Times of Loss; Chapter 3. Facing the Music: Creative and Experiential Group Strategies for Working with Addiction Related Grief and Loss; Chapter 4. Surviving and Thriving After Trauma and Loss; Chapter 5. The Loss of Innocence: Emotional Costs to Serving as Gatekeepers to the Counseling Profession

Chapter 6. Healing into Life After Sport: Dealing with Student-Athlete Loss, Grief, and Transition with EFTChapter 7. A Novel Approach: Using Literary Writing and Creative Interventions for Working Toward Forgiveness After Relationship Dissolution and Divorce; Chapter 8. Soup, Stitches, and Song: Helping Parents Grieve When Their Adolescent Dies; Chapter 9. Overcoming Heartbreak: Learning to Make Music Again; Chapter 10. Miscarriage: A Dream Interrupted; Chapter 11. Good Grief: The Part of Arts in Healing Loss and Grief

Chapter 12. Keeping the Music Alive: Using the "Grief and Hope Box" with Adult Offenders with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use IssuesChapter 13. Shattered Dreams of Professional Competence: The Impact of Client Suicides on Mental Health Practitioners and How to Prepare for It; Chapter 14. The American Reincarnation of the Superfluous Experience: Finding Meaning in Generation Y; Chapter 15. Superheroes and Heroic Journeys: Re-Claiming Loss in Adoption

Chapter 16. Coping Responses and Emotional Distress in Fathers of Children with Special Needs and "Redreaming" as a Creative InterventionChapter 17. Fictive Bibliotherapy and Therapeutic Storytelling with Children Who Hurt; Chapter 18. Saying Goodbye: Pet Loss and Its Implications; Index

Notes:

"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of creativity in mental health, volume 1, numbers 3/4, 2005."--T.p.

"First published 2005 by the Haworth Press, Inc."--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-203-83700-2

1-136-86752-X

1-136-86751-1

9780203837009

OCLC:

929511316