Loss and Grief Counseling Skills: The Practical Wording of Therapeutic Statements and Processes

This discussion of loss and grief counseling is a continuation of therapeutic interventions and a preparation for conflict resolution discussed in detail in the training manual "Effective Counseling Skills: the practical wording of therapeutic statements and processes" available through major bookstores and Amazon. The text is written in an informal style from the actual class lecture transcript and includes occasional student comments.In terms of significant unresolved conflicts and losses, every conflict is a loss because conflict creates distance in relationships, but not every loss is a conflict. The types of loss are reviewed as well as the goals of grief counseling, painful feelings around loss and grief, the unfinished business of loss, and the behaviour decisions of grief. Therapeutic interventions and statements for helping the healing of grief, are described and discussed in detail.