Description
Jackson Rainer – Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy
- Faculty:
- Jackson Rainer
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 1 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Aug 26, 2013
Description
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.
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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
Handouts
| Manual (1.8 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
- Processes of grief
- Typical vs complicated grief
- The history of Kubler-Ross and the shift to a new paradigm
- Interventions
- Resilience
- Meaning-Making
- Healing
Faculty
Jackson Rainer, Ph.D., ABPP Related seminars and products: 2
Professor of Psychology and Department Chair of the Psychology and Counseling Department
Valdosta State University
Jackson Rainier, Ph.D., ABPP, Board Certified Clinical Psychologist, is nationally known and respected as a psychotherapist, educator, author and expert in the areas of grief and bereavement, and end of life and palliative care. Dr. Rainer is a practicing psychologist at the Care and Counseling Center of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, He has taught, consulted, supervised, and written on issues related to life and loss, death and dying, and grief and bereavement for more than 25 years in multi-disciplinary social service and mental health settings. He maintains an active psychotherapy practice that includes grief counseling, and consultation with individuals and families in the presence of life-threatening, chronic, and debilitating illnesses.
He is the former chair of the Publication Board for Division 29, Psychotherapy, of the American Psychological Association, is on the editorial and publication boards of seven psychology journals, and serves as a Media Representative for the APA. His research appears in such journals as Innovations in Clinical Practice and the Journal of Clinical Psychology. He is the author of Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy (PESI, 2013).
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