Engage in Diversity and Difference with Trauma Lens

Assessment Tools for Grieving Person
• Differential assessment and evidence-based interventions
• Identifying Grief Intensity
• Assessing depression, trauma, anxiety
• Assessing for suicidality
Required Reading/Viewing:
• Neimeyer, R.A. & Cacciatore, J. (2016). Toward a developmental theory of grief. In R. A. Neimeyer (Ed.). Techniques of grief therapy: Assessment and intervention. Part II Assessing Bereavement. (pp 39-101).
• Shear, M. K. (2015). Complicated grief. New England Journal of Medicine, 372(2), 153-160.
• Worden, J.W. & Doka, K.J. (2011). A task-based approach for counseling the bereaved. In Neimeyer, R., Harris, D.L., Winokuer, H.R., & Thornton, G.F. (Eds.). Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice (pp. 57-68). New York: Routledge.
Recommended
• Hall, C. (2014) Bereavement theory: Recent developments in our understanding of grief and bereavement. Bereavement Care, 33 (1), 7-12.
• Leichtentritt, R. D., Yerushalmi, A., & Barak, A. (2013). Characteristics of the ongoing bond. British Journal of Social Work, 7, 1-17. h ttp://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/11/06/bjsw.bct171.fullLinks to an external site.
• Links to an external site.Rosner, R., Bartl, H., Pfoh, G., Kotoučová, M., & Hagl, M. (2015). Efficacy of an integrative CBT for prolonged grief disorder: A long-term follow-up. Journal of Affective Disorders, 183, 106-112.
• Rynearson, E. K. (2012). The narrative dynamics of grief after homicide. OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying, 65(3), 239-249.
• Stroebe, M., & Schut, H. (2015). Family matters in bereavement: Toward an integrative intra-interpersonal coping model. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(6), 873-879.