<P><EM>Grief Work in Addictions Counseling</EM> is a book for practitioners and students in the field of substance abuse counseling who encounter grief and loss issues with clients recovering from addiction. </P>
<P>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 themes to help clinicians design treatments that will meet the needs of diverse genders, sexual orientations, cultures, ages, and spiritual orientations.</P>
<P>This book is useful both for professionals and as a supplemental textbook for students preparing to become addictions counselors.</P>