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Artful Grieving

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21st March 2025

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781805013693

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Grief is so often a strange, wordless thing that refuses to be categorised or explained. Through art therapy, people struggling with loss can find ways to explore their feelings freely, and express the parts of their grief that are hard to put into words.

Based on empirically supported, award-winning research, a renowned grief model and proven clinical experiences, Artful Grieving provides a collection of 50 grief-specific art therapy directives to address the wide range of potential emotional responses and life adjustments for the grieving client. The topics draw from a range of theoretical and philosophical perspectives to facilitate the grieving processes necessary to prevent complicated grief.

This is not a how-to manual. Designed to facilitate Worden’s four tasks of mourning, it is an adaptable and accessible framework to inspire and encourage clinical intuition through art-based prompts that guide conversation and goal setting. An essential, critical, and effective guide for the well-being of those experiencing profound loss and grief.

Reviews

Carolyn Brown Treadon, PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS, Graduate Program Coordinator, PennWest University
This essential resource is a must read for all clinicians. Artful Grieving provides an innovative and creative framework to facilitate conversations around and promote healing from grief and loss.
David E. Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM—Florida State University, Professor of Art Therapy
Artful Grieving-- written from the heart and the mind-- expands and elevates how art therapists can view and approach loss and grief through these inspiring, innovative, and beautifully illustrated exercises.
Dr. Rachel Brandoff, Ph.D, ATR-BC, ATCS LCAT (NY), LPAT (NJ)
Alicia Seymour writes passionately and shares honestly, addressing a known deficit in art therapy approaches to working with grief. She sensitively addresses grief as an unpredictable but normative response to loss, in the wake of death and also from other life experiences. This book helps make art-making an accessible tool for clinicians helping grieving clients heal.