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Moving on: Narrative Perspectives on Grief and Loss

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This chapter offers a narrative understanding of the nature of grief and loss, and proposes a narrative approach to working with these issues in clinical social work practice. The nature of the renegotiation of meaning following loss is explored, as well as the varieties of grief and loss that social workers may encounter in their practice. Clinical case illustrations are provided.

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    For more on this understanding of the role of language for the bilingual client, cf. Foster (1998).

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McTighe, J.P. (2018). Moving on: Narrative Perspectives on Grief and Loss. In: Narrative Theory in Clinical Social Work Practice. Essential Clinical Social Work Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70787-7_7

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