Working with Continuing Bonds in Grief Therapy

A Practical Guide

Robert A. Neimeyer, Edith Maria Steffen (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
9780367431389 (ISBN)

Noch nicht erschienen (ca. April 2026)
Versandkostenfrei
Auch auf Rechnung

Artikel merken

Grief counseling and therapy have been revolutionized by the recognition that adaptive grieving commonly involves retaining bonds with the deceased rather than relinquishing them, but guidelines for how to integrate this shift into professional practice have been scarce. In this groundbreaking volume, leading bereavement scholars Robert Neimeyer and Edith Steffen provide a rich trove of therapeutic procedures to help grieving clients preserve valued relationships with the dead and address lingering issues with them.

With astute attention to clinical and cultural contexts, specific instructions for a great range of approaches, numerous practice vignettes, and transcripts of actual sessions, Working with Continuing Bonds in Grief Therapy is required reading for all professionals who support the bereaved in living through loss while reaffirming or realigning bonds with their loved ones.

Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, actively practices as a trainer and consultant, and has published extensively on grieving as a meaning-making process. Edith Maria Steffen, PsychD, is an honorary associate professor in counselling psychology at the University of Plymouth and senior counselling psychologist in the UK’s National Health Service. She also maintains a private practice in Surrey, UK.

1. The “Continuing Bonds Revolution” 2. When Continuing Bonds Are Hampered 3. Constructing the Therapeutic Alliance: A Meaning-Focused Perspective 4. Re-establishing a Narrative Presence through Sharing and Exploring Stories 5. Correspondence with the Deceased 6. Chair Work and Imaginal Dialogues 7. Experiencing Contact Using Visualisation and Imagery 8. Spontaneous, Facilitated, Assisted and Requested After-Death Communication 9. On Griefbots and Avatars: Integrating AI into Grief Therapy 10. Embodied Dialogue 11. Continuing Bonds at the End of Life 12. The Healing Canvas: Expressive Arts Modalities for Cultivating a Continuing Bond 13. Contexts of Connection: A Creative Toolkit

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement
Zusatzinfo	3 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9780367431389 / 9780367431389
Zustand	Neuware