This book does what it promises. It offers a useful, state-of-the-field, sensitive guide to assisting parents mourning the death of a child. Helping Bereaved Parents is stocked with sound theory, wise insights, sharp clinical practices, and useful resources. It deserves a place on every clinician's desk. -- Kenneth J. Doka, Senior Consultant, The Hospice Foundation of America
To me, the most inspiring 'take-home message' of this compact clinical guidebook is the recognition that traveling through the landscape of loss changes both bereaved parents and those professionals who journey beside them...Tedeschi and Calhoun have clearly traveled this terrain and found these treasures, and have had the generosity to share them with us. -- Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D., Series Editor, and author of Lessons of Loss: A Guide to Coping, from the foreword
A wise and useful guide to clinical work with bereaved parents. Among the many strengths of this book are the model of clinician as expert companion, the discussions of growth and of religion and spirituality, and the approach to bereavement as something other than pathology. -- Paul C. Rosenblatt, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Family Social Sciences, University of Minnesota; author, Parent Grief: Narratives of Loss and Relationship
In Tragedy's Wake: Counseling the Bereaved Parent
...the book represents a significant contribution to the field of bereavement care.
I was particularly struck by the authors' balance between acknowledging what research can tell us whilst accepting the individual differences which might be encountered in practice...They recommend a stance which they call 'expert companionship' which blends human compassion with a degree of expertise that may not be available from friends and relatives: 'expertise is woven into your interactions, rather than revealed through knowledge'. - David Trickey, Chartered Clinical Psychologist in BereavementCare, Vol. 25, No.1.
