Devastating losses how parents cope with the death of a child to suicide or drugs
This book fills a critical gap in our scientific understanding of the grief response of parents who have lost a child to traumatic death and the psychotherapeutic strategies that best facilitate healing. It is based on the results of the largest study ever conducted of parents surviving a child'...
| Other Authors: | Feigelman, William. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer Pub.,
Ã2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Theoretical issues guiding this study and how the data were collected
- Suicide stigma and compounding a survivor's grief difficulties
- Drug-overdose deaths and survivors' grief : a greatly neglected subject
- Differences in the suicide death circumstances and how they may affect a survivors' grief
- Grief overload : the impact of multiple losses, only-child loss, and multiple stressor events on bereaved parents
- Early years after loss : survivors get help and advance from their depths of despair
- Later years after loss : identifying the postvention needs of survivors
- The healing potential of suicide survivor support groups
- Suicide survivor support groups : comings and goings
- Personal growth after a suicide loss : is it associated with a survivor's mental health?
- Internet support groups for suicide survivors : a new form of grief support
- Gender differences in grief after the death of a child
- Investigating whether child loss promotes harmony or discord among married couples
- Suggestions for future research.