Walking With Grief & Trauma: A Developing Counselling Practice

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cityu.schoolDivision of Arts and Sciences
cityu.siteVancouver, BC
cityu.site.countryCanada
dc.contributor.authorMegas, Thea
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-08T21:00:18Z
dc.date.available2017-11-08T21:00:18Z
dc.date.issued2017-10-21
dc.description.abstractBackground: A counselling practice involving walking with clients during counselling sessions seems to be gaining popularity across North America. There is a prevalence of practice of using this modality in working with people critically impacted by grief and/or trauma. However, there is no research supporting this practice. The research on walking with clients for any therapeutic purpose is skewed, limited, and rare. Method: An ethnographical epistemological literature review unpacks grief, trauma, and the idea of walking with counselling clients. Results: Grief and trauma are understood via an academic, historical, and etiological context as interrelated aspects of loss. Clues from historical and current literature demonstrate grief and trauma can be serious conditions impacting the mind, heart, and body and therefore potentially benefiting from mind-body treatments. Evidence for this is found in the way grief and trauma are languaged, historically documented, and colloquially understood, as well as in a precedent setting prevalence of practice of walking with clients. Conclusion: Walking with clients is understood as a practice validated as potentially impactful for counselling in general, and specifically for grief and trauma work.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/688
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.institutionCity University of Seattle (CityU)
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subjectgrief counseling
dc.subjectwalking therapy
dc.subjectmind-body therapies
dc.subjectwalk & talk counseling
dc.subjectrunning therapy
dc.subjectmindful walking
dc.subjectruntalk therapy
dc.subjecttrauma of grief
dc.subject.lcshLoss (Psychology)
dc.subject.lcshGrief therapy
dc.subject.lcshMind and body
dc.subject.lcshBereavement
dc.subject.lcshWalking--Therapeutic use
dc.titleWalking With Grief & Trauma: A Developing Counselling Practice
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.disciplineCounselling
thesis.degree.grantorCity University of Seattle
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts
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