Working With Bereaved Parents - A Practitioner''s Guide

Working with Bereaved Parents is a thoughtful guide for frontline practitioners in mental health and medicine who face the daunting task of helping parents after the death of a child.

List of contents

Part 1 1. Introduction 2. What Makes Parental Grief So Difficult? 3. Helpful Factors 4. Contemporary Treatment Approaches Part 2 5. Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death 6. Death of a Younger Child or Adolescent 7. Death of an Adult Child 8. Accidental Death 9. Suicide 10. Homicide 11. Military or Combat Death 12. Non-Death Loss Part 3 13. Long-Term Adaptation and Resilience 14. Practitioner Resilience

About the author

Louis A. Gamino, PhD, ABPP, FT, is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Baylor College of Medicine and the director of the division of psychology for Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple, Texas.

Summary

Working with Bereaved Parents is a thoughtful guide for frontline practitioners in mental health and medicine who face the daunting task of helping parents after the death of a child.

Product details

• Authors: Louis A. Gamino, Louis A. (Baylor College of Medicine Gamino, Gamino Louis A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032380896
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238089-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The Routledge Series in Posttraumatic Growth
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, PSYCHOLOGY / Grief & Loss, Personal & public health, Psychotherapy, Medical Sociology, Sociology: death and dying, Personal and public health / health education, Sociology: Death & Dying, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services