Group work with bereaved people: developing person-centered practice

The Effect of Support Group Therapy on Parentally Bereaved Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial

“…6 There is extensive debate about how best to support bereaved people, given the heterogeneity of perspectives on grief, support, and methodologies of evaluation. 27 Research has identified several malleable child and family-level factors that can be important foci for clinical work with bereaved families, including providing education about the grief process, 28,29 teaching parents and children techniques to increase children's self-esteem, 18,30 adaptive control believes, 31 improve child coping skills, 32 and support for emotional expression, 33 as well as teaching parents strategies to enhance the quality of the parent-child relationship, 34,35 to increase positive family interactions, 36,37 decrease parent psychological distress, 38 and to reduce child exposure to negative life events. 11,33 In general population, Bereavement groups are believed to be beneficial as preventive interventions from social and economic standpoints.…”