Stone, Susan Dowd,

Mourning companion animals : guiding clients from loss to legacy / Susan Dowd Stone. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2024. - 1 online resource

"Mourning Companion Animals is a guidebook for mental health clinicians searching for effective, compassionate resources to guide their clients through the often-devastating experience of animal companion loss. Chapters offer powerful and comprehensive strategies to heal animal companion loss based in sound, evidenced based, theoretical perspectives. The included author-generated inventory, the animal companion bereavement questionnaire, provides further assistance in clinician exploration of each client's unique bond with their lost companion. The book's content is the result of more than twenty-five of extensive work within the human-animal bond, clinical training in the referenced therapies, and application of major psychodynamic theories"--

9781003145929 1003145922 9781040008997 1040008992 9781040008928 1040008925

10.4324/9781003145929 doi


Pet owners--Psychology.
Pet loss.
Pets--Death.
Bereavement--Psychological aspects.
PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work

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