The quiet letting go of Autumn, the reflective stillness of Winter, the bright rebirth of Spring, and the flourishing warmth of Summer trace the natural path of grief as it grows and changes to fit the spaces left behind by those we love. Easy-to-use exercise guides and activities invite readers to explore the changeable nature of grief through the ebb and flow of the seasons.As well as contributions from diverse creative practitioners, poems from Dr. Robert Neimeyer and reflection...

Grief counseling and therapy have been revolutionized by the recognition that adaptive grieving commonly involves retaining bonds with the deceased rather than relinquishing them, but guidelines for how to integrate this shift into professional practice have been scarce. In this groundbreaking volume, leading bereavement scholars Robert Neimeyer and Edith Steffen provide a rich trove of therapeutic procedures to help grieving clients preserve valued relationships with the dead and address ...

La muerte de un ser querido, en particular cuando es traumática, supone un desafío de gran envergadura que puede invadir a los afectados incluso después de que el impacto emocional de la pérdida se haya desvanecido. Pero el sentimiento de pérdida puede tener muchos significados: una ruptura de pareja, la pérdida de un trabajo, una discapacidad o la destrucción de un hogar.Aprender de la pérdida expone la excesiva superficialidad y simplicidad de las visiones tradicionales s...

Listening to the bereaved—really listening—brings into sharp focus two things: their pain and their questions. In Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement, noted psychologist Robert Neimeyer compassionately engages the heartfelt inquiries of real bereaved people who have lost parents and partners, siblings and children, to illness, tragic accident, suicide and violence, and offers practical counsel on how to move forward toward a life that can again ha...

A comprehensive and up-to-date handbook that surveys the field of grief therapy. With contributions from leading international scholars and practitioners, it covers:Foundational matters such as clinical presentations in bereavement, the conceptualization of grief therapy and its evidence base; distinctive approaches to grief therapy including existential therapy, art therapy, CBT and narrative, psychodynamic and meaning-based approaches; specific circumstances of death such as viol...

· Un enfoque transformador para acompañar el duelo desde la creatividad y la evidencia clínica. Si desea conocer las herramientas innovadoras para abordar las múltiples formas de pérdida, desde el fallecimiento de un ser querido hasta rupturas, enfermedades graves o transiciones vitales que afectan profundamente la identidad personal, ha llegado al libro indicado. Pensado como una guía práctica y una fuente de inspiración, este libro es un recurso imprescindible tanto para profesionales de...

La psicoterapia constructivista se centra en el significado que el cliente atribuye a su mundo y en el modo en que dicho significado configura su vida y genera sus dificultades. En este libro, Robert A. Neimeyer, una figura puntera en este campo, explica de un modo tan claro como accesible los rasgos distintivos de este enfoque.El libro Psicoterapia constructivista. Rasgos distintivos esboza treinta aspectos clave que diferencian el constructivismo de otros enfoques cognitivo-conductuales....

This workbook is designed to help bereaved parents find words for grief in their quest for well-being after the devastating death of a child by offering a hands-on approach to therapeutic writing that can be used as a means of self-help, in collaboration with therapists, or in the context of support groups featuring writing for well-being.The book presents a seven-week therapeutic writing program that integrates field-tested writing techniques with general psychoeducation around gr...

Die Konstruktivistische Psychotherapie (KPT) fokussiert auf die Bedeutung, die Klienten ihrer Welt zuschreiben und darauf, wie diese Zuschreibungen zu Problemen führen können. Sie entlehnt Elemente aus mehreren therapeutischen Traditionen, z.B. aus der humanistischen oder systemischen Therapie, erweitert diese und interpretiert sie neu vor dem Hintergrund charakteristischer postmoderner Themen, welche insbesondere mit der Vorrangstellung der persönlichen Bedeutung, der Konstruktion von Ide...

New Techniques of Grief Therapy: Bereavement and Beyond expands on the mission of the previous two Techniques books, featuring innovative approaches to address the needs of those whose lives have been shadowed by loss—whether through bereavement, serious illness, the rupture of a relationship, or other complex or intangible losses, such as of an identity-defining career.The book starts with several framing chapters by prominent theorists that provide a big- picture orienta...

Presenting a broad coverage of this major area of studies on death and dying, this book provides a systematic presentation of the six most widely used and best validated measures of death anxiety, threat and fear. These chapters consider the available data on the psychometric properties of each instrument and summarize research using them, and also supply a copy of the instrument with scoring keys - to facilitate their use. In addition, other chapters make use of the instrumentation by pur...

Constructivist psychotherapy focuses on the meaning that clients attribute to their world, and the way that this shapes their life and contributes to their difficulties. In this book, Robert A. Neimeyer, a leading figure in the field, provides a clear and accessible explanation of the key features of this approach.Constructivist Psychotherapy: Distinctive Features concentrates on the 30 key commitments that distinguish constructivism from other cognitive behavioural perspe...