Grief Counseling Homework Planner

by Rich, Phil

• ISBN13: 9780471433187
• ISBN10: 0471433187
• Edition: Disk
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-11
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Help bereaved clients deal with and work through a difficult time in their lives Grief Counseling Homework Planner provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to help clients better understand their grief and the grieving process. This easy-to-use sourcebook features: 63 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues encountered in grief therapy A quick-reference format-the interactive assignments are organized around the most typical stages of the grieving process Expert guidance on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises Homework that enables clients to work through the issues surrounding their loss through reflective thought, personal management, problem resolution, and self-healing A computer disk that contains all the exercises in a word-processing format-allowing you to customize them to suit you and your clients' unique styles and needs

Author Biography

PHIL RICH, EdD, MSW, is a clinical psychologist and social worker. He is also the Series Editor for Wiley’s Healing Journey series.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	xiii
Introduction	xv
Stages of Grief	1	(12)
Stages of Grief: Getting Located	6	(3)
Identifying Your Feelings	9	(4)
Accommodation and Adjustment	13	(13)
These Early Days	16	(3)
Expressing Yourself	19	(3)
This Loss in My Life	22	(3)
Barriers to Adjustment	25	(1)
Acceptance	26	(16)
Rite of Passage	30	(3)
I Still Can't Believe It	33	(3)
Remembering the Day	36	(3)
I Choose to Overcome Grief	39	(3)
Support	42	(15)
The Day After	45	(3)
The Right Help at the Right Time	48	(3)
Recognizing Support	51	(4)
Checkpoint: Support	55	(2)
Sharing	57	(14)
The Faces of Sharing	60	(3)
The Faces of Your Community	63	(3)
The Gift of Sharing	66	(3)
Checkpoint: Sharing	69	(2)
Understanding Feelings	71	(21)
Your Feelings	74	(3)
Your Thoughts About Your Feelings	77	(3)
How Do You Feel Right Now?	80	(4)
Triggers	84	(3)
Watching Your Feelings	87	(3)
Owning Your Feelings	90	(2)
Coping with Feelings	92	(15)
How Do You Cope?	95	(3)
What You Do Is Who You Are	98	(4)
One at a Time	102	(3)
Checkpoint: Coping	105	(2)
Finding Meaning	107	(21)
The Quality of Life	110	(3)
Meaning in Your Life	113	(3)
The Ingredients of Meaning	116	(3)
Personal Meaning	119	(3)
Fragments of Meaning	122	(4)
A Fridge Poem	126	(2)
Biography	128	(16)
I Want the World to Know	131	(2)
10-Minute Biography	133	(3)
A Quick Sketch	136	(3)
An Important Possession	139	(3)
Checkpoint: Biography	142	(2)
Shared History	144	(19)
Our Relationship	147	(3)
I Remember	150	(2)
An Important Day	152	(4)
Life Markers	156	(5)
I'll Never Forget	161	(2)
Memories and Remembrances	163	(19)
Telling Tales	167	(4)
A Scrapbook	171	(3)
A Trip in Time	174	(3)
A Visit through Time	177	(3)
Commemorating Your Loved One	180	(2)
Unfinished Business	182	(17)
Thinking about Unfinished Business	186	(3)
Expressing Your Feelings	189	(5)
Regrets	194	(3)
Unfinished Business	197	(2)
Relationships	199	(19)
Current Relationships	202	(4)
Evolving Relationships	206	(4)
Remaking Relationships	210	(3)
Moving On	213	(3)
Checkpoint: Relationships	216	(2)
Moving On	218	(19)
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions	221	(3)
Making Decisions	224	(4)
If Only You Knew What's Inside of Me Now	228	(3)
A Goodbye Letter	231	(3)
I've Learned ...	234	(3)
Bibliography	237	(2)
About the Disk	239