Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Early attachments and loss -- The nurturing environment: aspects of the counselling approach -- Experiences of death and bereavement -- The effect of external circumstances and internal factors on the experience of bereavement -- Historical change in attitudes to death and bereavement -- Cultural variety: shared elements -- Children's grief -- Personal and family experiences of loss -- Basic loss counselling skills: 'Give sorrow words' -- Further loss counselling skills -- Working with children -- Understanding guilt and anger -- Working with guilt and anger in complicated grief -- Assessment and refererral -- Supervision -- Training in loss counselling skills

Designed to help people who find that they have to cope, in the course of their work or daily lives, with the grief of others. The authors use theory, accessible case histories and exercises to involve the reader