Helping Bereaved Parents: A Clinician's Guide

by Richard G. Tedeschi

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.

204 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 2003

Reviews

[Robert Bogue]

I’m not a clinician, but I am interested in how to better support those around me who are bereaved, and that’s the spirit behind reading Helping Bereaved Parents: A Clinician’s Guide. In truth, the book made the reading list because I appreciate the work of Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun, particularly their work on posttraumatic growth. (See Transformed by Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth.) I wanted to learn more about how they came to understand growth, and that pathway is through supporting the bereaved.

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