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• Title:Family focused grief therapy : a model of family-centred care during palliative care and bereavement / David W. Kissane, Sidney Bloch.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kissane, David W. (David William)
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Bloch, Sidney.
  
• Published/Created:Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2002.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM430.5.F2 K617 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Grief therapy.
  Family psychotherapy.
  
• Medical Subjects: Family Therapy--methods.
  Attitude to Death.
  Family--psychology.
  Grief.
  Terminal Care--psychology.
  
• Description:xviii, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  
• Series:Facing death.
  
• Summary:The family are intimately involved in the care of the dying and themselves require support through their experience of both palliative care and bereavement. This volume describes a comprehensive model of family care and how to go about it.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-246) and index.
  
• ISBN:0335203507
  0335203493 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Foreword / Colin Murray Parkes
  1. Family care and family grief
  2. typology of family functioning
  3. Conducting family focused grief therapy
  4. Common themes that arise during FFGT
  5. typical encounter of therapy
  6. Challenges and problems in the delivery of FFGT
  7. impact of specific life events upon families
  8. ethical dimension
  9. Clinical application of the FFGT model
  App. 1. Family Relationships Index (FRI)
  App. 2. Tables of results from the Melbourne family grief studies.