Grief Counseling Techniques Flashcards

Under DSM-5-TR, prolonged grief disorder in adults requires that at least how much time has passed since the death?

Answer: 12 months

DSM-5-TR requires at least 12 months since the death for adults (6 months for children and adolescents).

Rynearson's restorative retelling is specifically designed for clients bereaved by:

Answer: Violent death such as homicide, suicide, or accident

Restorative retelling helps survivors of violent death shift from reenacting the dying to restoring a living memory of the person.

Which component is a hallmark of Shear's Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT)?

Answer: Imaginal revisiting of the death story

CGT includes imaginal revisiting, in which the client retells the death story to process avoided memories.

A client writes an unsent letter to her deceased mother expressing things she never said. This intervention primarily targets:

Answer: Unfinished business and unexpressed feelings

Unsent letters give voice to unspoken thoughts and help resolve unfinished business with the deceased.

Reflecting a client's feelings, such as 'It sounds like you feel angry that no one warned you,' is an example of:

Answer: Empathic reflection

Empathic reflection mirrors the client's emotional experience to convey understanding.

Tonkin's 'growing around grief' model suggests that over time:

Answer: Grief stays similar in size while the person's life grows around it

Tonkin proposed that grief does not shrink but the bereaved person's life expands around it.

Which approach is most appropriate when a counselor recognizes strong personal reactions to a client's loss that resemble the counselor's own past bereavement?

Answer: Seek supervision to address countertransference

Supervision helps counselors recognize and manage countertransference so it does not harm the client.