Helping Bereaved Parents : A Clinician's Guide

This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive guide to effective work with bereaved parents, combining a broad overview of current research, theory, and practice with the authors' own extensive clinical experience. Transcripts of individual, couple, and group meetings illustrate the delicate subtleties of this work, giving the reader helpful insights into more effective clinical practice. The authors emphasize the importance of approaching each parent as a unique person, while also considering the socio-cultural context of the bereaved. This book helps clinicians approach work with bereaved parents with a less scripted format, suggesting an alternative role as expert companion to the bereaved, allowing for a more uplifting experience for both parties. Book jacket.

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