Here the story of therapy as it unfolded across 10 sessions is shared by an experienced
family therapist. The family took part in a randomized trial of family therapy starting in …

Sharing grief generally aids its healing. Sharing emotions within a family brings reflection on
the meaning of valued relationships, helping to activate coping and restoration processes …

This paper presents a framework for adapting a family systems approach to the grief
process. The framework places the bereaved and therapist in the larger context. The …

Many families are intimately involved in looking after their dying relatives and mourning their
loss. In a palliative setting, a family-centred model of care can not only optimise the practical …

Loss never occurs in a vacuum but rather is shared by variously interconnected people,
whose most common constellation is the family (Kissane & Bloch, 1994). The quality of …

Distress reverberates throughout the family during palliative care and bereavement, inviting
consideration of a family-centered model of care. Targeting families thought to be “at risk” …

Coping with the Death of a Child shows clinicians how to integrate various therapeutic
modalities and clinical approaches to grief therapy into one comprehensive model linked to …

Despite their core place in family life, grief and loss have received only sporadic attention in
the family therapy literature. In examining this neglect we briefly revisit earlier family therapy …

Despite families providing considerable care at end of life, there are substantial gaps in the
provision of supportive care. A qualitative interview study was conducted with 17 caregivers …

The form and range of losses that families endure are as broad as they are painful. Families
suffer concrete losses such as death, divorce, job loss, the loss of a home, and loss of …