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| GRIEF AND RECOVERY APPRAISAL TECHNIQUE (GRAT |
| Columns - Assessment Tools | |
| Saturday, 30 November 2002 | |
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The following sentence completion technique is a semi-projective task that taps into clients' experience of three domains that relate to grief, recovery, and spirituality. The GRAT can be administered verbally or in written form to clients, who complete the stem with their own responses. The GRAT is designed to capture underlying areas of concerns that clients may experience when dealing with grief and loss during recovery.
R Recovery: issues associated with threats to
recovery, coping skills, personal change [8 items]
G Grief: issues associated with grief and loss and concomitant emotions including depression, anger, and guilt [7 items] S Spirituality: issues associated with the spiritual domain and its relationship to dealing with grief, loss, recovery, and healing [5 items] It is hoped this instrument will provide counselors with a more comprehensive perspective on issues clients grapple with during recovery. No clinical decisions should be made on the basis of the GRAT or any other single instrument. The GRAT is intended only to provide supplemental information that may used in practice. R 1. My recovery is challenged by: __________________________________________________________________ G 2. I am often angered by: __________________________________________________________________ S 3. The meaning of life: __________________________________________________________________ R 4. I feel supported if: __________________________________________________________________ G 5. I feel guilty because: __________________________________________________________________ S 6. Spiritually speaking, I: __________________________________________________________________ G 7. If only I had: __________________________________________________________________ R 8. Healing is: __________________________________________________________________ S 9. Right now, my faith is: __________________________________________________________________ R 10. I am tempted to use when: __________________________________________________________________ G 11. I have suffered: __________________________________________________________________ R 12. I am afraid I'll relapse when: __________________________________________________________________ G 13. I feel overwhelmed by: __________________________________________________________________ S 14. It is comforting: __________________________________________________________________ R 15. I am afraid that: __________________________________________________________________ G 16. It saddens me that: __________________________________________________________________ R 17. My friends try to: __________________________________________________________________ S 18. Why does God: __________________________________________________________________ G 19. It hurts when: __________________________________________________________________ R 20. I want to: __________________________________________________________________ Sylvia Kay Fisher is a research psychologist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. She was formerly a therapist and psychological evaluator. Ronnie H. Fisher is a professor of psychology at Miami-Dade Community College. Previously, he was a social worker and counselor.              |
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