Linda Machin

Biography

Dr Linda Machin trained and worked as a Medical Social Worker before taking up an academic post teaching social work and counselling. Her specialist interest is in bereavement research and practice. She devised the Range of Response to Loss (RRL) concept as a theoretical model of grief and an associated practice tool, the Adult Attitude to Grief scale (AAG); described in her book 'Working with Loss and Grief' (Sage: 2nd edition 2014). Wider adoption of this approach to working with loss is taking place in bereavement services in the UK and beyond. Practice and research developments are continuing, based on the RRL/AAG, for work with children and with patients and carers in palliative care. Linda is an Honorary Research Fellow of Keele and Lancaster Universities, a freelance trainer, and Clinical Advisor for Cruse-Bereavement Care.

Visit Linda Machin's website: Mapping Grief

Research and scholarship

Currently pursuing validation of the Attitude to Health Change scales for patients and carers, and development and validation of the Children's Attitude to Grief scale - all based on the Range of Response to Loss theoretical model and the existing validated bereavement measure, the Adult Attitude to Grief scale.

Further information

Details of the work developed by Linda Machin based on the Range of Response to Loss model, associated practice tools, and guidance for their therapeutic use, can be found on her website: mapping-grief.care