Parental Loss of a Child

by Therese A. Rando

No book can compare to Therese Rando's complete assessment of a parent having a child die. Her research is presented to help you better understand the entire experience.

555 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1986

About the author

Dr. Rando is an award-winning clinical psychologist, traumatologist, and thanatologist in Rhode Island, USA. She is the Clinical Director of The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss, which provides mental health services through psychotherapy, training/education, supervision, and consultation, and specializes in: loss and grief; traumatic stress; and the psychosocial care of persons with physical injury, serious acute medical conditions, or with chronic, life-threatening, or terminal illness, and their loved ones. Dr. Rando has consulted, conducted research, provided therapy, written, and lectured internationally in areas related to loss, grief, illness, injury, dying, death, bereavement, disaster, and trauma. She also has provided expert witness testimony in legal proceedings involving illness, injury, or death.

Reviews

[Mary Woods]

This book is for professionals. It is too coldly clinical to be of help to grieving parents.