Helping Bereaved Parents: A Clinician's Guide

by Tedeschi,Richard G.

• ISBN13: 9780415947480
• ISBN10: 0415947480
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book helps clinicians working with bereaved parents to becomeexpert companionsto the bereaved. The authors impart an understanding of the experience of grieving parents and offer a concise clinical guide that mental health professionals can use to best assist bereaved parents. An overview familiarizes the reader with the subject, literature and existing models and theories, and from there the authors build a framework for treating the bereaved.Helping Bereaved Parentsemphasizes the importance of approaching each parent as a unique person, but the book also provides a sensitive overview of ways in which to understand bereaved parents within their own cultural contexts.

Author Biography

Richard G. Tedeschi, Ph.D. and Lawrence G. Calhoun, Ph.D. are both Clinical Psychologists and Professors of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Chapter 1 The Experience of Grieving Parents	1	(14)
Chapter 2 Grief Perspectives, Models, and Myths	15	(22)
Chapter 3 A General Framework for Intervention	37	(34)
Chapter 4 Bereaved Parents and Their Families	71	(30)
Chapter 5 Circumstances of the Loss	101	(24)
Chapter 6 Spirituality and Religion	125	(20)
Chapter 7 Issues for the Clinician	145	(22)
Chapter 8 Resources for Bereaved Parents and Their Expert Companions	167	(8)
References	175	(6)
Index	181