Grief counselling and grief therapy : a handbook for the mental health practitioner / J. William Worden.

Previous ed.: London: Routledge, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Attachment, loss, and the experience of grief -- Understanding the mourning process -- Grief counseling -- Abnormal grief reactions -- Grief therapy -- Grieving special types of losses -- Grief and family systems -- The counselor's own grief -- Training for grief counseling.

Grieving over death is an annate, vital process that most people are able to experience and emerge from in a healthy manner. In this revised edition, Worden offers new counselling techniques, incorporating a refined basic model of mourning, and added information on special types of mourning.