Working with Bereaved Parents: A Practitioner's Guide (The Routledge Series in Posttraumatic Growth) - Softcover

Gamino, Louis A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032380845 ISBN 13: 9781032380841

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

Working with Bereaved Parents is a thoughtful guide for frontline practitioners in mental health and medicine who face the daunting task of helping parents after the death of a child.

Within a culturally inclusive and respectful framework, chapters consider several psychosocial factors that complicate parental bereavement as well as helpful factors that facilitate adaptation. The author shows how contemporary theory and findings from evidence-based research can be artfully applied to clinical practice with bereaved parents. The book also shares a range of strategies for promoting parents’ resilience and personal growth in the wake of devastating loss.

About this title

About the Author

Louis A. Gamino, PhD, ABPP, FT, is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Baylor College of Medicine and the director of the division of psychology for Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple, Texas.

From the Back Cover

Working with Bereaved Parents is a thoughtful guide for frontline practitioners in mental health and medicine who face the daunting task of helping parents after the death of a child.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032380845
• ISBN 13: 9781032380841
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284