title: Loss-grief addiction model.
abstract: This group study features a loss-grief inventory in the treatment of ninety-eight substance abusers in a public outpatient treatment facility. The inventory serves as both assessment and treatment tools. That is, the inventory helps the counselor and the client to identify unresolved loss-grief issues which may contribute to the addiction; it also serves as a treatment tool to assist the client through the grieving process. In identifying losses, the client has three time categories from which to choose: 1) pre-addiction losses; 2) losses associated with the addiction; and 3) losses associated with entering treatment. An additional feature of the inventory illustrates a simplified procedure to compute the client's unresolved loss-grief level through use of a 5-point Likert scale.
authors: University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA.
authors: M H
authors: MH
authors: Beechem
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Prewitt
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Scholar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001601:Bereavement; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy