When Part of the Self Is Lost : Helping Clients Heal after Sexual and Reproductive Losses

This book offers specific therapeutic guidelines that will help practitioners empathize with the client's emotional pain and assist clients in working through their grief and developing systems of support. It illustrates how professionals can move beyond the facts of a case to address the client's feelings of loss and grief. And it shows how professionals can maximize their therapeutic effectiveness, and describes how they can look beyond individual cases and become educators, advocates, and change agents in their communities.

This book offers specific therapeutic guidelines that will help practitioners empathize with the client's emotional pain and assist clients in working through their grief and developing systems of support. It illustrates how professionals can move beyond the facts of a case to address the client's feelings of loss and grief. And it shows how professionals can maximize their therapeutic effectiveness, and describes how they can look beyond individual cases and become educators, advocates, and change agents in their communities.