Description: For therapists treating survivors of sudden, violent, or traumatic loss, this evidence-based professional manual provides a modular, transdiagnostic approach--Grief Recovery with Individualized Evidence-Based Formulation (GRIEF)--along with strategies to target common underlying symptoms of PTSD, depression, and prolonged grief disorder (PGD). With this book, therapists will find proven-effective interventions to improve treatment outcomes and help survivors move forward in their lives.
Brief description: Alyssa A. Rheingold, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, professor, and associate director of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is director of the Response, Recovery & Resilience division of the National Mass Violence Center providing support to communities impacted by mass violence. Rheingold has been working in the traumatic loss field for over two decades, and has numerous federally funded service and research grants supporting her work. She has published over one hundred peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the areas of trauma, interpersonal violence, traumatic grief, death by homicide, and anxiety.
Review Quotes: "This book is an incredible resource for providers working with adult survivors of traumatic death loss. The GRIEF model combines evidence-based strategies from psychotherapies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and persistent grief into a comprehensive, eight-module package that can be tailored to the unique needs of each survivor. The authors provide guidance on treatment planning, as well as selection, sequencing, and implementation of practice elements. I highly recommend it."
--Joan M. Cook, PhD, professor at the Yale School of Medicine--Joan M. Cook, PhD