Bereavement counseling
Subtitle: pastoral care for complicated grieving
By: Junietta Baker McCall.
Series: The Haworth Pastoral Press religion and mental health; Haworth religion and mental health
Publisher: Haworth Pastoral Press; Haworth Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Church work with the bereaved.; Pastoral counseling.
Description: "This practical guide to the assessment and treatment of complicated grief responses illustrates a pastoral approach that combines clinical and spiritual care. Author Junietta Baker McCall is an ordained minister with an extensive background in pastoral counseling. In this book she focuses on the partnership between spirituality and healing, the resources of spiritual practices, and the functions of counseling and spiritual/pastoral psychotherapy." "Topics addressed in Bereavement Counseling: Pastoral Care for Complicated Grieving include universal grief processes and responses, dysfunctional grieving therapies and treatment priorities, reorganization and recovery, the ways that perceptions, thoughts, and beliefs influence care, and more."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-325) and index.