EP69: Superheroes and Grief

NASW Social Work Talks Podcast

We speak with Dr. Jill Harrington, DSW, LCSW, creator and co-editor of Superhero Grief: The Transformative Power of Loss (Routledge, 2021), which provides practical ideas for promoting healing through modern superhero stories.

Posted April 6, 2021

Read a transcript of episode 69

Resources

About Grief & Grief Counseling

• The Center for Complicated Grief
• Association for Death Education and Counseling
• Traumatic Grief in Children - National Child Traumatic Stress Network
• Losing a Loved One to Homicide  - Center for Victim Research
• Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner - J. William Worden
• The emotional catharsis of "Wandavision" in a year of grief - CNN.com

From NASW Press

Stories of Complicated Grief: A Critical Anthology

The authors in this anthology are social workers and other human service scholars who have personally experienced complicated, protracted, or otherwise difficult grief. They write openly about their experiences and place their stories in a larger academic context.