The effects of self-help and psychotherapy intervention on child loss: the limits of recovery

The effects of self-help and psychotherapy intervention on child loss: the limits of recovery

Videka-Sherman L; Lieberman M

The American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry

1985

Child; Female; Humans; Male; Grief; Social Adjustment; Self-Help Groups; Combined Modality Therapy; Non-U.S. Gov't; P.H.S.; Research Support; U.S. Gov't; Adaptation; Psychological; Parents/psychology; Intervention; Interventions; Adjustment Disorders/therapy; Psychotherapy/methods

Results of a longitudinal study of the effects of bereaved parents' participation in a self-help group and in psychotherapy are presented. Active self-help group participants evidenced unique changes in attitudes about bereavement. Reasons for lack of differences in mental health, marital, and parental roles are discussed.

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