Get the tools to help the grief that comes when a dream dies. Every person at one time or another suffers when his or her dreams are shattered. Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy: When the Music Stops, a Dream Dies provides truly innovative approaches to therapeutically help individuals work through and survive grief and loss.
Key Features
- Explores creative interventions for common, yet emotionally devastating problems faced by those weathering the storms of grief.
- Provides effective tools for therapists and counsellors to creatively help people dealing with death, addiction, trauma, and more.
- Includes existing research on specific grief and loss issues with clinical applications using creative mediums such as music, writing, or ritual.
- Extensively referenced resource for clinicians of all types.
Additional Information
The chapters in this innovative volume illustrate a clinical application for each situation. Topics include how storytelling, journaling, and correspondence can be used to process the experience of a counselor’s loss following the death of their client; using psychodrama and the utilization of empty chair techniques to address addiction related grief and loss; the use of rituals as an intervention to help clients with trauma and loss during times of natural disasters; the process of gatekeeping by counselor educators; Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) as an approach to help student athletes deal with life after the sport; and a literary exercise to help clients work toward forgiveness after divorce.
