Coping with Infant or Fetal Loss

This book offers assistance to therapists faced with the task of facilitating mourning and recovery in couples who have lost a foetus or an infant. The authors delineate the steps of an effective grief resolution process and explore the myriad meanings of grief resolution, not only on an individual level, but also in the more complicated dyad of the parental partners and in social ecosystems such as the partners' families of origin, friends, colleagues and community. Partners' behaviours and interaction are viewed in terms of gender role "expectations", and social support is examined both within and outside of the couple relationship.