Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is addiction a loss to grieve? / Susan Furr -- A primer on grief theories and their application to substance use recovery / Susan Furr -- The counselor's own grief / Susan Furr -- Understanding the brain : grief and substance abuse / Emily A. Barton -- Women, substance use, and grief / Susan Furr -- Men, substance use, and grief / Mark S. Woodford -- African Americans : substance use, grief, and loss / Connie T. Jones and Gillian R. Galdy -- Addiction and grief in the Latinx community / Daniel Gutierrez, Michelle Colon, and Stephanie Dorais -- Grief and substance use in Asian Americans / Kok-Mun Ng, Susan Furr, Yun Shi, and Krupali Michaels -- Addiction and grief in the Native American community / Kathleen Brown-Rice and Vanessa Iverson -- Addiction and grief in the LGBTQ community / Pamela S. Lassiter, Michael Spivey, and Derrick Johnson -- Addiction and grief in the military / Hank Harris and Lyndon Abrams -- Addiction and grief in the elderly / Christine Tina Chasek -- Grieving traumatic experiences and addiction : an adolescent perspective / Regina Moro -- Addiction and grief in the prison population / Leigh Falls Holman -- Addiction and grief in Christianity / John Nance -- Grief and Substance Use in Hindu Communities / Sejal Foxx -- Grief and substance abuse in Muslim community / Tahsin Ilhan -- A Buddhist perspective on loss due to addiction / Christie Nelson -- Counseling activities to address grief and substance use / Kathryn Hunsucker and Susan Furr -- Using metaphors : an effective and person-centered approach to grief and substance abuse counseling / Derrick Johnson and Hannah Glenn.

"Grief Work in Addictions Counseling is a book for practitioners and students in the fields of substance abuse counseling who encounter grief and loss issues with clients who are in recovery 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 to help clinicians design treatments that will meet the needs of diverse groups depending on gender, sexual orientation, culture, age, and religion/spirituality. This book is useful both for professionals and as a supplemental textbook for students preparing to become addictions counselors"-- Provided by publisher.

College of Education Graduate Studies Master of Arts in Education major in Guidance and Counseling

In English