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Grief Counseling: A Funeral Home—Based Model
Author(s) -
RIORDAN RICHARD J.,
ALLEN LAURELL
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1989.tb02107.x
Subject(s) - grief , psychotherapist , disenfranchised grief , psychology , traumatic grief , nursing , medicine
Loss and grief are issues that require special understanding and skills from the counselor. This article describes how one funeral home implemented an innovative response to loss involving death by inaugurating a thorough professional grief counseling program for its clientele and the community it serves.