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“This book is a must read for any practitioner. It is all here...everything you need to counsel and help a family who has lost a child of any age.”
Daniel Roberts, DD, DMin, FT, coauthor (with Melinda Moore) of After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth
“Gamino poignantly captures the varieties of parental bereavement and the range of compassionate responses to them. His book will really speak to clinicians, and I have no doubt it will benefit all the people they serve.”
Dale G. Larson, PhD, author of The Helper’s Journey: Empathy, Compassion, and the Challenge of Caring, 2nd ed.
“In this book, Gamino brings the full force of who he is as a clinician, scholar, educator, and most importantly—human being.”
Heather L. Servaty-Seib, PhD, HSPP, coeditor of Handbook of Thanatology, 3rd ed., and We Get It: Voices of Grieving College Students and Young Adults
“Unerringly informed by his own parental grief, Gamino delivers workable approaches as he integrates theory and practice in readily accessible prose.”
Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, MA, MSN, coeditor of Handbook of Thanatology, 3rd ed.
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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.
Les merWorking 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.
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.
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“This book is a must read for any practitioner. It is all here...everything you need to counsel and help a family who has lost a child of any age.”
Daniel Roberts, DD, DMin, FT, coauthor (with Melinda Moore) of After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth
“Gamino poignantly captures the varieties of parental bereavement and the range of compassionate responses to them. His book will really speak to clinicians, and I have no doubt it will benefit all the people they serve.”
Dale G. Larson, PhD, author of The Helper’s Journey: Empathy, Compassion, and the Challenge of Caring, 2nd ed.
“In this book, Gamino brings the full force of who he is as a clinician, scholar, educator, and most importantly—human being.”
Heather L. Servaty-Seib, PhD, HSPP, coeditor of Handbook of Thanatology, 3rd ed., and We Get It: Voices of Grieving College Students and Young Adults
“Unerringly informed by his own parental grief, Gamino delivers workable approaches as he integrates theory and practice in readily accessible prose.”
Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, MA, MSN, coeditor of Handbook of Thanatology, 3rd ed.
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