'Multidimensional Grief Therapy provides a remarkable integration of a theoretical model of grief with measures and intervention strategies that are tailored to identify and treat the unique needs of different bereaved children. The book provides an impressive review of the scientific foundations of their approach. The approach provides guidance for clinicians to support adaptive grieving processes and to identify and treat maladaptive processes. The manual in the book provides step by step exercises clinicians can use to guide their practice, with each exercise nicely tied to the underlying theory of distinct dimensions of children's grief. The authors are distinguished scholars who have made significant contributions to our scientific understanding of children's grief. In this book they have brought all of their scientific research together to provide clinicians with a uniquely comprehensive model they can use to support bereaved youth.' Irwin Sandler, Research Professor (FSC), ASU Psychology REACH, Emeritus Professor, Emeritus College, Arizona State University
1. Overview of multidimensional grief therapy; 2. Multidimensional grief theory: the foundation of multidimensional grief therapy; 3. MGT pretreatment assessment interview: using evidence-based assessment and goal setting to guide individual treatment using MGT; 4. Caregivers as 'Co-facilitators' of children's grief; Session 1: Grief psychoeducation: what is grief?; Session 2: Emotion psychoeducation and identification: what am I feeling and why?; Session 3: Grief psychoeducation continued: how has my grief changed over time?; Session 4: Understanding caregivers as key grief facilitators: what can my caregiver do to support me?; Session 5: Understanding loss reminders and trauma reminders: what reminds me that they're no longer here? What reminds me of the way they died?; Session 6: Sizing up a situation: how can our thoughts change the way we feel or act?; Sessions 7-9: Loss narrative: telling the story of my person; Session 10: Graduation and launching into the future: what does it mean to have a 'good goodbye'?; Index.