
ERIC Number: EJ394724
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Publication Date: 1988
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A Peer Support Group for Women in Prison for the Death of a Child.
Kaplan, Mildred Fine
Journal of Offender Counseling, Services and Rehabilitation, v13 n1 p5-13 1988
Describes peer support program for women in prison for the death of a child. Explains how group has helped participants reduce their isolation, mourn their loss, identify their responsibility in the death, and change destructive patterns of feelings and behavior. Follow-up of women who have been paroled is discussed which indicated their positive adjustment to the community. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Children, Crime, Death, Females, Grief, Mothers, Peer Relationship, Prisoners, Self Help Programs, Social Support Groups
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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