Working with the Dying and Bereaved

"Working with the Dying and Bereaved" illustrates how therapists can use a "systemic" approach to help families facing death and bereavement. This approach considers the individual in a broader, more holistic concept than traditional theories. This book provides a broad theoretical framework and practical strategies for systemic therapeutic work. Each chapter demonstrates how each approach has been applied by the therapist to work within a particular model, carefully outlining the particular technique used.

Pauline Sutcliffe is a consultant to family therapy training institute in Washington DC. Guinevere Tufnell is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and family therapist. Ursula Cornish is an educational psychologist and family therapist.

Marianne Walters -- Foreword Pauline Sutcliffe,Guinevere Tufnell and Ursula Cornish -- Preface 1. Froma Walsh and Monica McGoldrick -- A Family Systems Perspective on Loss, Recovery and Resilience 2.Pauline Sutcliffe with Guinevere Tufnell -- The Relevance of Tears: Reconstructing the Mourning Process from a Systemic Perspective 3. Guinevere Tufnell, UrsulaCornish and Pauline Sutcliffe -- Death of a Parent in a Family with Young Children: Working with the Aftermath 4. Ursula Cornish -- Death of a Pupil in School 5. K. Eia Asen -- On the Brink--Managing Suicidal Teenagers 6. LawrenceLevner -- A `Dysfunctional Triangle' or Love in all the Right Places: Social Context in the Therapy of a Family Living with AIDS 7. Alison Roper-Hall -- Working Systemically with Older People and their Families Who Have `Come to Grief'