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Working with a bereaved family: focusing on prevention not pathology

Institute of Family Therapy, London

Ours is not a culture which generally prepares people for death, despite the fact that death comes to us all. The author suggests that open communication following a death may reduce psychological trauma. Extracts from a family therapy session demonstrate how a healthy family can constructively face issues which follow parental death. This approach does not concentrate on pathology, instead it focuses on the family's strengths to deal with a tragic situation.

Key Words: case report • counselling • death • family therapy • palliative treatment

Palliative Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 2, 105-111 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/026921638900300204


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