Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy (PDF)

• how storytelling, journaling, and correspondence can be used to process the experience of a counselor's loss following the death of their client
  
  
• using psychodrama and the utilization of empty chair techniques to address addiction related grief and loss
  
  
• the use of rituals as an intervention to help clients trauma and loss during times of natural disasters
  
  
• the process of gatekeeping by counselor educators
  
  
• Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) as an approach to help student athletes deal with life after the sport
  
  
• a literary exercise to help clients work toward forgiveness after divorce
  
  
• using books, songs, and projects to assist clients experiencing grief after the death of their adolescent child
  
  
• creative strategies to aid clients through the grief and loss of love
  
  
• effective interventions to assist clients through loss from miscarriage
  
  
• using music, videography, visual arts, literature, drama, play, and altar-making in the grief process
  
  
• innovative interventions for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder
  
  
• suicide high risk factors-and a Pre-suicide Preparation Plan that mental health practitioners can implement
  
  
• creative intervention for the client who is adopted using super heroes and science fiction
  
  
• therapeutic storytelling for children in grief
  

Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy: When the Music Stops, a Dream Dies is a creative, reaffirming resource perfect for mental health professionals, therapists, counselors, social workers, educators, and students.