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Grief Counseling Tips & Techniques for Therapists

Clinical tips for supporting clients through grief, loss, and bereavement. Evidence-based grief counseling techniques and interventions from licensed mental health professionals.

Podcast-Based Grief Exploration: Active Listening to Normalize Loss

Recommend clients listen to grief-focused podcasts like "Unlocking Us" (Brené Brown episodes on grief), "The Dinner Party" (peer stories of loss), or "Griefcast" (Cariad Lloyd interviews mourners) as…

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Website with Grief Resources

The Center for Complicated Grief offers an overview of grief (including the difference between acute grief, adapting to loss, integrated grief, diagnosis, treatment, and helpful…

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Samaritan's Crisis Suicide Hotline

This free, confidential, 24/7 hotline provides support for those in crisis. Many callers have been referred to Samaritans to help them cope with depression, anxiety, feelings of panic, domestic…

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Invisible String Picture Book for Missing a Parent

This book is not specific to divorce or separation, but a positive story about how a parent's love never goes away despite physical separation. Parents enjoy reading this book to children at bedtime,…

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Children's workbook for processing divorce/separation

Excellent workbook, helps kids process their parents' divorce/separation... acknowledges the greiving experience that typically occurs for the child when parents separate. When Mom and Dad Separate:…

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The Invisible String Workbook: Creative Activities to Comfort, Calm, and Connect

This book is great for kids dealing with separation or loss! For a topic that can be so hard to talk to children about, this book makes it easy. In language and images your child will connect to,…

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Quantum Healing: Exploring the Fronterins of Mind/Body Medicine

Chopra does it again! I am a huge believer in the mind-body connection. For me, the two cannot be separated. This book takes an interesting approach into disease and looks at how the mind and body…

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Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

In a personal tale about his own grief, Kessler manages to once again change the way we think about grief. This book talks about how to find meaning not in a person's death, but in a person's life.…

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