Reauthoring life narratives: grief therapy as meaning reconstruction.
New conceptualizations of bereavement have begun to highlight the process of meaning reconstruction in the aftermath of loss, and the important role this plays in adaptation. This article summarizes theoretical and empirical contributions to this emerging perspective, and discusses several specific implications these carry for the practice of grief therapy.
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Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. neimeyer@memphis.edu
D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept; D014956:Writing