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Working with the Dying and Bereaved

Systemic approaches to therapeutic work

  • Textbook
  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Pauline Sutcliffe

    1. Institute of Family Therapy, London, UK

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  2. Guinevere Tufnell

    1. Institute of Family Therapy, London, UK

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  3. Ursula Cornish

    1. Institute of Family Therapy, London, UK

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  • A new approach to therapeutic work
    Th only book that considers the effects of bereavement on the whole family system
    Contributions from highlyregarded, international names in the field
    Practical examples of cases

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. A Family Systems Perspective on Loss, Recovery and Resilience

    • Froma Walsh, Monica McGoldrick
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Relevance of Tears: Reconstructing the Mourning Process from a Systemic Perspective

    • Pauline Sutcliffe, Guinevere Tufnell
    Pages 27-58

  4. Death of a Parent in a Family with Young Children: Working with the Aftermath

    • Guinevere Tufnell, Ursula Cornish, Pauline Sutcliffe
    Pages 59-97

  5. Death of a Pupil in School

    • Ursula Cornish
    Pages 98-128

  6. On the Brink — Managing Suicidal Teenagers

    • K. Eia Asen
    Pages 129-151

  7. A ‘Dysfunctional Triangle’ or Love in All the Right Places

    • Lawrence Levner
    Pages 152-176

  8. Working Systemically with Older People and their Families who have ‘Come to Grief’

    • Alison Roper-Hall
    Pages 177-206

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 207-212
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About this book

Coping with death and dying involves much more than learning to live with grief. Working with the Dying and Bereaved illustrates how therapists can use a 'systemic' approach to help families facing death and bereavement. This approach considers the individual in a broader, more holistic context than traditional theories.
This book provides both a broad theoretical framework and practical strategies for systemic therapeutic work. Each chapter demonstrates how the approach has been applied by the therapist to work within a particular model, each with its characteristic techniques. The therapist's role and interventions are explained, showing how, why and when particular interventions are made. The processes described can help the therapist to manage both in the acute situation and in identifying needs that may call for follow-up and longer term work.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Family Therapy, London, UK

    Pauline Sutcliffe, Guinevere Tufnell, Ursula Cornish

About the editors

PAULINE SUTCLIFFE runs a family therapy practice in London and is a consultant to family therapy training institutes in Milan, Italy and Washington D.C., U.S.A.

GUINEVERE TUFNELL is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and family therapist who has worked for many years in a child and family mental health clinic in east London. She is an associate editor of the journal Child Psychology & Psychiatry Review.

URSULA CORNISH is an educational psychologist and family therapist. She has worked extensively with loss in families and with trauma and stress-related problems in schools.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Working with the Dying and Bereaved

  • Book Subtitle: Systemic approaches to therapeutic work

  • Editors: Pauline Sutcliffe, Guinevere Tufnell, Ursula Cornish

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26222-9

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 212

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Nursing, Palliative Medicine, Sociology, general, Psychotherapy

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Health & Hospitals, Pharma

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