Grief Counseling & Grief Therapy: J William Worden
This month I wanted to deal with grieving. First we want to look at the attachment theory. Worden (1991) stated that, “before we can fully comprehend the impact of a loss and the human behavior associated with it, one must have some understanding of the meaning of attachment.” (p. 7) Do we believe that grief is a disease? Or even that mourning is necessary? When a woman loses her child to the system, we often don’t see grief in that situation. Most time we say she deserved it and just look away. That she was a bad parent and turn a blind eye. Does that exclude her from grieving? As a system we figure our job is to do what’s best for the child once that child is out of danger then the job is done. So I beg to ask, who looks after the mother, to ensure that the cycle does not repeat itself. There are four tasks of Mourning that Worden talks about in his book and they are: 1. To accept the reality of the loss a. This lady and so many of us have to come to realize t