Abstract
One notable feature of contemporary research in thanatology is the predominance of research in bereavement, eclipsing all other categories of studies in leading journals in the field (Wittkowski, Doka, Neimeyer, & Vallerga, 2015). In significant part, this burgeoning attention to grief and its treatment has been driven by the resurgence of time-honored theoretical persepctives in the field, such as attachment theory (Kosminsky & Jordan, 2016; Shaver & Fraley, 2008), alongside the emergence of new models of adapation to loss that are generating their own evidence base and clinical implications (Neimeyer, 2015). In this chapter we draw on one such perspective on grieving as a process of meaning reconstruction (Neimeyer, 2016b) in outlining a novel Meaning in Loss Group intervention for mourners struggling with complicated bereavement, illustrating its core principles, processes and procedures with vignettes derived from its application in three quite different contexts. We begin with a brief research review to ground this effort, and proceed to offer of a flexible manual of the group to provide guidance to fellow clinicians and researchers interested in implementing it in their own settings.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Techniques of grief therapy: Before and after the death |
| Publisher | Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2017 |