"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.

Universal grief processes and responses -- When grief becomes complicated -- Dysfunctional grieving -- The spiritual side of grief and loss -- How perceptions, thoughts, and beliefs influence care -- Therapies and treatment priorities -- Positive strategies and helpful interventions -- Reorganization and reclaiming one's life -- Appendix A : universal grief response -- Appendix B : possible complications surrounding significant loss -- Appendix C : identification of risk factors that may lead to complicated and dysfunctional grieving -- Appendix D : grief trajectory worksheet : complicated/dysfunctional grief -- Appendix E : grief response service wheel -- Appendix F : severity of grief response : impairment flow sheet template -- Appendix G : dysfunctional grieving criteria : symptoms and behavior that can indicate dysfunctional grieving.