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Peer reviewedWheeler, Inese – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1994
Volunteers (n=203) obtained through Compassionate Friends newsletters completed questionnaires consisting of Purpose in Life Test, Grief Experience Inventory, and questions on meaning. Findings indicated that lower purpose in life for bereaved parents was related to less time since death, loss by suicide, loss of only child, and loss of more than…
Descriptors: Bereavement, Death, Grief, Parents
Peer reviewedTedeschi, Richard G.; Calhoun, Lawrence G. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1993
Discusses perceptions of the bereaved that make support groups necessary and the process by which such groups work. Notes that bereavement support groups first produce sense of community with other bereaved persons, then allow group members to begin to concern themselves again with issues other than bereavement. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Bereavement, Counseling Techniques, Death, Mental Health
Peer reviewedKlass, Dennis – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1985
Describes the Compassionate Friends self-help group as an effective intervention in the severe bereavement after the death of a child. The decision to attend the group, to affiliate, to transform oneself into a helper within the group form the framework of the description. (Author/NRB)
Descriptors: Bereavement, Children, Coping, Death
