Multidimensional Grief Therapy: A Flexible Approach to Assessing and Supporting

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Provides counselors, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists with a flexible program to assess and support children and adolescents who have experienced bereavement. For use in various settings, including schools, bereavement support programs, and clinics, this guide offers practical tools to reduce distress and empower grieving youth.

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Multidimensional Grief Therapy (MGT) provides counselors, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists (as well as students in these fields) with a flexible program for assessing and supporting children and adolescents who have experienced bereavement. MGT is a strength-based intervention, designed to reduce unhelpful grief reactions that prevent adjustment, and promote adaptive grief reactions that enable children to cope better after a death. It also reduces associated symptoms of psychological distress and helps bereaved children and adolescents lead healthy, happy, productive lives. As young people grieve in different ways and "one-size-fits-all" treatments often lack effectiveness, MGT uses an assessment-driven, two-phased approach to effectively address the unique mental health needs of diverse youth. This manual provides a wealth of activities and handouts designed specifically to engage and empower youth after experiencing a death, including under traumatic circumstances.

Author Biography

Julie B. Kaplow is Professor of Psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, and Executive Vice President of Trauma and Grief Programs and Policy at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Texas. She is also Executive Director of the Trauma and Grief Centers at The Hackett Center for Mental Health in Houston, Texas and the Children's Hospital New Orleans, Louisiana. Christopher M. Layne is Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Child and Adolescent Traumatic Stress Program (CATSP) Specialty Clinic at Nova Southeastern University. He is also a Research Psychologist at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience and directs the National Child Trauma Workforce Institute. Robert S. Pynoos is a Distinguished Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences at David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, and is Co-Director of the UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, coordinating the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. William Saltzman is Professor and Director of the Counseling Psychology Program and Advanced Studies in Education and Counseling at California State University, Long Beach.

Table of Contents

1. Overview of multidimensional grief therapy; 2. Multidimensional grief theory: the foundation of multidimensional grief therapy; 3. MGT pretreatment assessment interview: using evidence-based assessment and goal setting to guide individual treatment using MGT; 4. Caregivers as 'Co-facilitators' of children's grief; Session 1: Grief psychoeducation: what is grief?; Session 2: Emotion psychoeducation and identification: what am I feeling and why?; Session 3: Grief psychoeducation continued: how has my grief changed over time?; Session 4: Understanding caregivers as key grief facilitators: what can my caregiver do to support me?; Session 5: Understanding loss reminders and trauma reminders: what reminds me that they're no longer here? What reminds me of the way they died?; Session 6: Sizing up a situation: how can our thoughts change the way we feel or act?; Sessions 7-9: Loss narrative: telling the story of my person; Session 10: Graduation and launching into the future: what does it mean to have a 'good goodbye'?; Index.

Review

'This is a remarkably cogent volume on an assessment and treatment of childhood grief - developed after decades of clinical experience and empirical confirmation by a team of respected authors who recognize that 'one-size-fits-all' grief treatments lack effectiveness. Emphasizing that childhood grief occurs on a continuum, the volume's structure follows two phases. First is a detailed assessment of grief distress responses (separation distress, existential/identity distress and circumstance-related distress), a clarification of developmental vulnerabilities and resilience with reinforcement of psychoeducation and stabilization exercises that can be offered by non-clinicians. This is particularly relevant for bereavement support workers, faith-based personnel or school counselors. Phase two is a protocol for clinicians when grief distress is clearly maladaptive through a detailed series of fully described exercises of therapy, featuring extensive literature references, lists of grief/trauma measures, graphic narratives and writing exercises for the professional clinician.' Ted Rynearson, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Washington'Most clinicians are never trained to work with grieving children and teens despite how often this trauma causes youth to seek therapy. Multidimensional Grief Therapy fills this gap by providing everything a clinician needs to implement this easy to use and developmentally appropriate evidence-based therapy. The authors have incorporated years of research and work with grieving children into this text which provides helpful handouts, a range of suggested assessment tools for each session and direct practical advice for working with bereaved children and their caregivers who are often grieving themselves.' Julie Cerel, Ph.D., Professor, Licensed Psychologist, University of Kentucky, College of Social Work, Director, Suicide Prevention & Exposure Lab (SPEL), Wilson Professor in Mental Health'Multidimensional Grief Therapy provides a remarkable integration of a theoretical model of grief with measures and intervention strategies that are tailored to identify and treat the unique needs of different bereaved children. The book provides an impressive review of the scientific foundations of their approach. The approach provides guidance for clinicians to support adaptive grieving processes and to identify and treat maladaptive processes. The manual in the book provides step by step exercises clinicians can use to guide their practice, with each exercise nicely tied to the underlying theory of distinct dimensions of children's grief. The authors are distinguished scholars who have made significant contributions to our scientific understanding of children's grief. In this book they have brought all of their scientific research together to provide clinicians with a uniquely comprehensive model they can use to support bereaved youth.' Irwin Sandler, Research Professor (FSC), ASU Psychology REACH, Emeritus Professor, Emeritus College, Arizona State University

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Provides state-of-the-art guidance for working with young people contending with grief and bereavement, including traumatic deaths.

Details ISBN1107566509 Author Robert S. Pynoos Short Title Multidimensional Grief Therapy Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1107566509 ISBN-13 9781107566507 Format Paperback Subtitle A Flexible Approach to Assessing and Supporting Bereaved Youth Pages 196 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Julie M White AU Release Date 2023-05-31 NZ Release Date 2023-05-31 Birth 1944 Affiliation National Formosa University Position Translator Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Alternative 9781009347525 DEWEY 616.8914 Audience Professional & Vocational Publication Date 2023-09-14 UK Release Date 2023-09-14 We've got this

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