Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy

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 through the difficulties of dealing with death, addiction, trauma, changes in life circumstances, divorce, heartbreak, miscarriage, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder (COD), suicide, adoption, and issues with children.The chapters in this innovative volume cite existing research on specific grief and loss issues and illustrate a clinical application for each situation using various creative mediums such as music, writing, or ritual. Each approach can be expanded and modified with care by clinicians of all types to better help clients through the process. This resource is extensively referenced.Topics in Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy include:

how storytelling, journaling, and correspondence can be used to process the experience of a counselor’s loss following the death of their client
using psychodrama and the utilization of empty chair techniques to address addiction related grief and loss
the use of rituals as an intervention to help clients trauma and loss during times of natural disasters
the process of gatekeeping by counselor educators
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) as an approach to help student athletes deal with life after the sport
a literary exercise to help clients work toward forgiveness after divorce
using books,