Welcome to Open Leaves Bookshop

Published UK, 2009
This book provides a new model which makes clear connectons between theory and practice. The Range of Response to Loss Model provides a theoretical 'compass' for recognizing the wide variability in reaction to loss and the Adult Attitude to Grief Scale is a tool for 'mapping' individual grief and its change over time, providing an individual grief profile. Together these offer a framework for practitioners to:

Listen to 'stories' of grief told by clients/patients
Identify common patterns in grief
Recognize individual difference in grief response
Assess the need for therapeutic intervention or support
Prompt therapeutic dialogue
Guide therapeutic focus
Appraise client's/patient's progress
Evaluate outcome

This book is a valuable resource not only for practitioners and trainees in counselling and social work, but also for psychologists, doctors, nurses and for researchers studying loss and grief.

Dr.Linda Machin is a Visiting Research Fellow of Keele University. She established a counselling service for the bereaved in the UK.
Paperback. 200 pages