Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy

Featuring Jackson Rainer, PhD, ABPP, psychologist, author, and grief expert

Join Dr. Rainer for the latest view of grief and bereavement counseling, and a discussion of best therapeutic practices for this special population. With examples from his latest book, Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy, he will share new practices of healing, meaning making, and speak to the myth of closure in grief work.

Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy

The process of grief does not change a person as much as it reveals another part of the self

Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy is a reader friendly book with tools, techniques, and compass points to help others with the experience of grief.  Going beyond the well-known but outmoded stage theories of grief, this book explores and illustrates new models of treatment, and applying them to the lives of bereaved clients. 

Topics include:

• Clinical practices for natural and complicated grief processes
• Changing stage theories of grief
• Emotions in grief
• Impact of death on the family
• Death, grief, and spirituality
• Loneliness and isolation
• Social and cultural ceremonies of death
• Meaning making and growth following loss