Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician's Guide to Foundations and Applications
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : December 2023
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 360
- Category :
Grief and Bereavement - Category 2 :
Attachment Theory - Catalogue No : 97611
- ISBN 13 : 9781032038445
- ISBN 10 : 1032038446
Also by John R. Jordan
Also by Phyllis S. Kosminsky
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Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy bridges the fields of attachment studies, thanatology, and interpersonal neuroscience, uniting theory, research, and practice to enrich our understanding of how we can help the bereaved. The new edition includes updated research and discussion of emotion regulation, relational trauma, epistemic trust, and much more.
In these pages, clinicians and students will gain a new understanding of the etiology of problematic grief and its treatment, and will become better equipped to formulate accurate and specific case conceptualization and treatment plans. The authors also illustrate the ways in which the therapeutic relationship is crucially important – though largely unrecognized – element in grief therapy and offer guidelines for an attachment-informed view of the therapeutic relationship that can serve as the foundation of all grief therapy.
Written by two highly experienced grief counselors, this volume is filled with instructive case vignettes and useful techniques th
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Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy is a fascinating book! Kosminsky and Jordan have written a scientifically sound, clinically innovative, well-argued, and extremely informative volume. The authors show how insights from attachment theory and neuroscience are the keys that unlock the puzzle of healthy and disordered grief responses, and how, through understanding unmet attachment needs, attachment-related emotions and defenses, and the broaden-and-build repercussions of attachment security, grief therapists can help bereaved clients to manage their grief reactions and to find ways to move forward. I enjoyed reading this gracefully written and profound book and I strongly believe that it will become essential reading for clinicians, researchers, and students interested in the study and treatment of disordered grief.
Mario Mikulincer, professor of psychology, Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University, Israel
In this remarkable revision of their ground-breaking volume, Phyllis Kosminsky and Jack Jordan penetrate still more profoundly into the developmental, interpersonal, and intersubjective neurobiological underpinnings of attachment that give rise and form to all grief. More than a compendium of clinical wisdom and contemporary theory and research, Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy provides resonant insights and concrete principles for helping clients read the deep text of their own needs in the wake of loss. Equally, it instructs the reader in how to become the secure base that allows survivors to integrate the rupture and realign the bond with a significant other who is present even in absence. I, for one, am a better therapist and companion to those who mourn for the gift of their vision.
Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, co-editor of The Handbook of Grief Therapy and director of The Portland Institute for Loss and Transition
The second edition of this important volume is a valuable resource for clinicians and researchers alike. Updating, expanding, and deepening their understanding of the interface between attachment styles and the processing of bereavement, Kosminsky and Jordan's integration of new findings from neuroscience adds an important dimension to their overview. The ample clinical material included is accompanied by rich and thoughtful consideration of the cases at hand. Accompanying these exemplary clinicians as they weave together theory, research and practice on bereavement will enrich the therapeutic encounter for therapists at all stages of their professional development.
Simon Shimshon Rubin, PhD, director of the International Laboratory for the Study of Loss, Bereavement, and Human Resilience at the University of Haifa, Israel, and co-author of Working with the Bereaved: Multiple Lenses on Loss and Mourning
Reading this book in one stitting, as I did, left me moved. It starts with a crystal-clear exposition of contemporary attachment theory and its neuroscience basis, defines and easy-to-understand attachment framework for helping bereaved people, and shows how sensitive therapy can help overcome physiological dysregulation and restore meaning. Convincing clinical illustrations are used throughout, contributing to an overall sense of two vastly experienced clinicians passing on deep theoretical and practical expertise to the next generations. Strongly recommended.
Jeremy Holmes, MD, FRCPsych, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, and author of Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Grief, that harrowing experience after the death of a loved one, is again beautifully described in the second edition of Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy. What the authors have accomplished in this edition will continue to enrich how clinicians work with the grief-stricken and will provide them with an expanded knowledge of how attachment shapes the experience of grief in bereavement. And Kosminsky and Jordan do more. The rhythm of the writing combined with their clarity and deftness in explicating theory and neuroscience make Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy a book that is a pleasure to read.
Dorothy Holinger, PhD, author of The Anatomy of Grief
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: An Introduction to Attachment Theory and Research
1. Foundational Concepts in Attachment Theory
2. Building on the Foundation: The Second Wave of Attachment Theory and Research
3. Attachment Theory and Neuroscience: Understanding the Impact of Early Experience and the Nature of Change
Part Two: Bereavement through the Lens of Attachment: Advances in Research, Theory and Practice
4. Insecure Attachment and Problematic Grief: Contemporary Models and Their Implications for Practice
5. The Impact of the Relationship with the Deceased
6. Trauma and the Mode of Death
Part Three: Clinical Implications: Toward Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy
7. A Model of Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy
8. The Therapeutic Relationship: Core Capacities of the Attachment-Informed Grief Therapist
9. Strengthening Self-Capacities
10. Meaning Making in Adaptation to Loss
11. Conclusions
About the Author(s)
Phyllis S. Kosminsky is a clinical social worker specializing in work with the bereaved, particularly those who have experienced a traumatic loss. Over the past 30 years, Dr Kosminsky has provided bereavement counseling to individuals, conducted grief support groups, and provided trainings for mental health professionals in the treatment of normal and problematic grief. Her publications include journal articles, book chapters.
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John R. Jordan is a retired psychologist in private practice in Rhode Island, where he specialized in work with survivors of suicide and other traumatic losses for almost 40 years. He was the clinical consultant for Grief Support Services of the Samaritans in Boston, Massachusetts, and the professional advisor to the Loss and Bereavement Council of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He has published over 45 articles, chapters, and full books.
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