Product Description

Praise for earlier editions:

"Worden ... has again provided mental health professionals with a superb guide describing specific principles and procedures that may be helpful in working with bereaved clients undergoing normal or abnormal grief reactions .... an extremely practical book and an invaluable resource."
--Contemporary Psychology

"This book is the 'Bible' for those involved in the field of bereavement work...It is a straightforward, tightly focused, practical, soundly reasoned, compact working text."
--William M. Lamers, Jr., MD., The Lamers Medical Group

"If you had one book dealing with grief counseling available to you, this is the one you should select."
--Caregiver Quarterly

"Worden has brought a critical and discerning mind to bear. ... His delineation of 'the tasks of mourning' is a masterly and original summation, and the ways by which we can help others to grow through grieving are clearly described."
--From the Foreword by Colin Murray Parkes, UK edition

In this updated and revised third edition of his classic text, Dr. Worden presents his most recent thinking on bereavement drawn from extensive research, clinical work, and the best of the new literature. Readers will find new information on special types of losses--including children's violent deaths, grief and the elderly, and anticipatory grief--as well as refinements to his basic model for mourning. It now not only includes the four "tasks of mourning" but also seven "mediators of mourning." In addition, a series of vignettes, the best of the first and second editions, plus several new to this edition, bring bereavement issues to life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20046 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-15
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 244 pages

Book Info
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Presents the author's current thinking on bereavement drawn from extensive research, clinical work, and the best of the literature. Includes the four 'tasks of mourning' but also seven 'mediators of mourning.' Previous edition: c1991.

About the Author

J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP, is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and holds academic appointments at Harvard Medical School and at the Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology in California. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study, based at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His research and clinical work over 30 years has centered on issues of life-threatening illness and life-threatening behavior. Dr. Worden has lectured and written on topics related to terminal illness, cancer care, and bereavement. He is the author of Personal Death Awareness, Children & Grief: When a Parent Dies, and is coauthor of Helping Cancer Patients Cope. His book Grief Counseling & Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner, now in its third edition, has been translated into 7 foreign languages and is widely used around the world as the standard reference on the subject. Dr. Worden's clinical practice is in Newport Beach, California.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Buy
This is a wonderful buy for anyone who has dealt with a death or is counseling anyone going threw the grieving process.

good information
I like the way the authors look at grief and don't try to pathologize it. The ideas here make more sense to me than the phases of grief that we typically hear about. This was a quick and easy book to read with a very common sense way of looking at grief, death and dying.

Very Helpful
My mother passed away suddenly this past january. I was going through so many emotions I thought I was going crazy, so someone suggested I get grief counseling, but Im not the group counseling type. Then someone suggested I get a book and I came across this one and it helped me to understand that everything I was going through was normal. It is amazing how everything in that book pertained to me and exactly how I was feeling. I still have a ways to go but the craziness of it all has subsided and I can better deal with things.