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Working with AIDS Bereavement: A Comprehensive Approach for Mental Health Providers

UCSF AIDS Health Project, PO Box 0884, San Francisco, CA 94143-0884. 100p., bibliog., index. (UCSF AIDS Health Project Monograph Series, no. 3). ISBN 1-879168-03-0. Write for price.
Peter B. Goldblum, Sara Erickson. 1999.

AIDS grief can only be studied when one understands AIDS bereavement. This book is an attempt to help the reader understand this bereavement. The first chapter discusses the historical, cultural, philosophical, and psychological contexts of mourning and specifically AIDS bereavement. The next two chapter synthesize this material so that a model can be developed that "will aid providers to assess and treat clients who need help navigating their mourning process." The following chapters describe a range of bereavement activities and interventions and a method for matching AIDS mourners with appropriate bereavement activities. "Finally, the monograph proposes a psychotherapeutic approach--Integrative AIDS Bereavement Therapy--that combines aspects of both psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapy and is enhanced by recent developments specifically designed to assist AIDS mourners in preventing complicated grief."

This is an excellent book that counselors will find useful in working with AIDS grief. It is easy to read and recommended for all libraries as well as the layperson's personal library.

Keywords: Bereavement; Psychological Aspects; Grief; Death; LossKWDbereavement;psychologicalaspects;grief;death;loss
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