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Peer reviewedOgles, Benjamin M.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1991
Examined effectiveness of 4 self-help books given randomly to 64 participants who had recently experienced divorce or breakup. Books were either behaviorally oriented, based on stage theories, or focused on general life crises. All groups significantly improved in depressive, general psychiatric, and loss-specific symptoms from pretest to posttest…
Descriptors: Coping, Divorce, Program Effectiveness, Self Help Programs
Peer reviewedKlass, Dennis – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1987
Examined relationship between fathers and mothers in a self-help group of bereaved parents, including dynamics of couples already divorced, those who divorce within a few years after their child's death, and those who remain married. Results suggest that marital relationships are not separate from whole set of dynamics associated with the death of…
Descriptors: Children, Death, Divorce, Emotional Adjustment
