Family Focused Grief Therapy by David Kissane

Family Focused Grief Therapy by David Kissane

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Summary

Family members are often intimately involved in the care of dying people and themselves require support through both their experience of palliative care and bereavement. Suitable for psychosocial care in oncology, hospice or palliative care and grief work, this book describes a model of family care and how to go about it.

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Family Focused Grief Therapy by David Kissane

The family are intimately involved in the care of the dying and themselves require support through their experience of both palliative care and bereavement. This volume describes a comprehensive model of family care and how to go about it - an approach which is new, preventive, cost effective and with proven benefits to the bereaved.
"Kissane and Bloch demonstrate an extraordinary commitment to improving the quality of family life in this moving are readable account of a research project using Family Focussed Grief Therapy (FFGT)I recommend it to anyone working with seriously ill and dying patients." - Jeni Webster
David Kissane is Professor/Director of Palliative Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, President of The International Psycho-Oncology Society and an internationally renowned psycho-oncologist, bereavement researcher and clinician.

Sidney Bloch has a personal Chair in Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, is an internationally regarded teacher and has authored several books on psychotherapy, ethics and families.
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ISBN 13 9780335203499
ISBN 10 0335203493
Title Family Focused Grief Therapy
Author David Kissane
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Open University Press
Year published 2002-04-16
Number of pages 276
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.