Main description:

Grief Work in Addictions Counseling is a book for practitioners and students in the field of substance abuse counseling who encounter grief and loss issues with clients recovering from addiction.

Enlightening the reader about loss, its relation to addiction, and the need to grieve these losses, this book provides specific strategies and techniques that readers can apply to both individual clients and counseling groups. Chapters address multicultural themes to help clinicians design treatments that will meet the needs of diverse genders, sexual orientations, cultures, ages, and spiritual orientations.

This book is useful both for professionals and as a supplemental textbook for students preparing to become addictions counselors.

Contents:

1. Is Addiction a Loss to Grieve? 2. A Primer on Grief Theories and Their Application to Substance Use Recovery 3. The Counselor's Own Grief 4. Understanding the Brain: Grief and Substance Abuse 5. Women, Substance Use, and Grief 6. Men, Substance Use, and Grief 7. African Americans: Substance Use, Grief, and Loss 8. Addiction and Grief in the Latinx Community 9. Grief and Substance Use in Asian Americans 10. Addiction and Grief in the Native American Community 11. Addiction and Grief in the LGBTQ+ Community 12. Addiction and Grief in the Military 13. Addiction and Grief in Older Adults 14. Grieving Traumatic Experiences and Addiction: An Adolescent Perspective 15. Addiction and Grief in the Prison Population 16. Addiction and Grief in Christianity 17. Grief and Substance Use in Hindu Communities 18. Grief and Substance Abuse in Islam 19. A Buddhist Perspective on Loss Due to Addiction 20. Counseling Activities to Address Grief and Substance Use 21. Using Metaphors: An Effective and Person-Centered Approach to Grief and Substance Abuse Counseling