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LEARNING ABOUT GRIEF FROM NORMAL FAMILIES: SIDS, STILLBIRTH, AND MISCARRIAGE *
Author(s) -
DeFrain John
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1991.tb00890.x
Subject(s) - grief , tragedy (event) , miscarriage , psychology , meaning (existential) , service (business) , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , psychiatry , nursing , pregnancy , economy , economics , biology , genetics
Family therapists can learn a great deal that would be of utility to them in their clinical work from normal families grieving over the death of an infant. When a baby dies, families begin a long and difficult journey, a search for security and meaning in a world that for them has gone insane. The researcher discusses 10 probing, extremely difficult questions family members commonly pose in the aftermath of an infant death and offers guidelines that could be helpful to family therapists hoping to be of service to families in the process of healing and growing through this tragedy.