This is the first book to focus specifically on complicated mourning, often referred to as pathological, unresolved, or abnormal grief. It provides caregivers with practical therapeutic strategies and specific interventions that are necessary when traditional grief counseling is insufficient. The goal is to turn 'complicated' into 'uncomplicated' mourning. Rando examines the unique issues in bereavement situations that put mourners at high risk for complicated mourning. She synthesizes the literature and integrates it with specific treatment approaches.

Treatment of Complicated Mourning

Therese A. Rando

Rando, Therese A

Champaign, Ill.: Research Press

United States, United States of America

Champaign, Ill, Illinois, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 683-722) and indexes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-297) and indexes.

Introduction -- A perspective on loss, grief, and mourning -- Theories of complicated mourning: a historical review -- Complicated outcomes of loss: symptoms and syndromes -- Complicated outcomes of loss: mental disorders, physical disorders and death -- ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT: Clinical assessment of grief and mourning -- Formal therapeutic approaches to complicated mourning -- Generic issues in the treatment of complicated mourning -- Intervening in the six "R" processes of mourning (recognize the loss; react to the separation; recollect and reexperience the deceased and the relationship; relinquish the old attachments to the deceased and the old assumptive world; readjust to move adaptively into the new world without forgetting the old; reinvest) --SPECIFIC CLINICAL PROBLEMS: Risks and therapeutic implications associated with individual relationship, and system factors -- Risks and therapeutic implications associated with mode of death -- Risks and therapeutic implications associated with sudden and unexpected, multiple, and traumatic death -- RIsks and therapeutic implications associated with death of a child and AIDS-related death -- Caregiver concerns in the treatment of complicated mourning -- Appendix: Grief and mourning status interview and inventory (GAMSII)

Focuses specifically on complicated mourning, often referred to as pathological, unresolved, or abnormal grief. It provides caregivers with practical therapeutic strategies and specific interventions that are necessary when traditional grief counseling is insufficient. The goal is to turn "complicated" into "uncomplicated" mourning.

xv, 751 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 683-722) and indexes

2023-06-28