Working with Bereaved Parents
A Practitioner's Guide
1st Edition
Published on 27. March 2025
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-032-38089-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Within a culturally inclusive and respectful framework, chapters consider several psychosocial factors that complicate parental bereavement as well as helpful factors that facilitate adaptation. The author shows how contemporary theory and findings from evidence-based research can be artfully applied to clinical practice with bereaved parents. The book also shares a range of strategies for promoting parents' resilience and personal growth in the wake of devastating loss.
Within a culturally inclusive and respectful framework, chapters consider several psychosocial factors that complicate parental bereavement as well as helpful factors that facilitate adaptation. The author shows how contemporary theory and findings from evidence-based research can be artfully applied to clinical practice with bereaved parents. The book also shares a range of strategies for promoting parents' resilience and personal growth in the wake of devastating loss.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is a must read for any practitioner. It is all here...everything you need to counsel and help a family who has lost a child of any age."Daniel Roberts, DD, DMin, FT, coauthor (with Melinda Moore) of After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth
"Gamino poignantly captures the varieties of parental bereavement and the range of compassionate responses to them. His book will really speak to clinicians, and I have no doubt it will benefit all the people they serve."
Dale G. Larson, PhD, author of The Helper's Journey: Empathy, Compassion, and the Challenge of Caring, 2nd ed.
"In this book, Gamino brings the full force of who he is as a clinician, scholar, educator, and most importantly-human being."
Heather L. Servaty-Seib, PhD, HSPP, coeditor of Handbook of Thanatology, 3rd ed., and We Get It: Voices of Grieving College Students and Young Adults
"Unerringly informed by his own parental grief, Gamino delivers workable approaches as he integrates theory and practice in readily accessible prose."
Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, MA, MSN, coeditor of Handbook of Thanatology, 3rd ed.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional and Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 1 s/w Zeichnung, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
568 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-38089-6 (9781032380896)
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Person
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.
Content
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