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Series editor's preface | |
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Foreword | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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Setting the scene | |
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Outline of the book | |
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Conclusion | |
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Family care and family grief | |
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What is the family? | |
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Psychosocial morbidity within the family | |
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Current knowledge about family grief | |
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Grief and infant loss | |
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Grief and the loss of a child | |
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Grief and adult loss | |
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Studies of family intervention | |
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Family grief and family grief therapy | |
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Conclusion | |
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A typology of family functioning | |
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Methodology in the Melbourne family grief studies | |
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Determinants of family types | |
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Classification of family types | |
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Clinical utility of this classification | |
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Selection of families by screening | |
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Which models of therapy apply to those selected by screening? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Conducting family focused grief therapy | |
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The family | |
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Stages of therapy | |
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Training and experience of the therapist | |
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Standard principles of family therapy utilized in FFGT | |
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Arranging the introductory session | |
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The first assessment session | |
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The genogram and completion of the assessment | |
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Active focused treatment | |
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The final sessions: consolidation and termination | |
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Conclusion | |
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Common themes that arise during FFGT | |
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Care provision | |
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The emotional challenge of suffering | |
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Intimacy | |
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Discussing death | |
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Saying goodbye | |
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Good death or disappointment | |
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Cultural issues and religious practices | |
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Needs of particular family members, including children | |
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Historical influences on the family | |
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Family grief | |
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Conclusion | |
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A typical encounter of therapy | |
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Independent assessment of the family's outcome | |
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Conclusion | |
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Challenges and problems in the delivery of FFGT | |
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Engaging reluctant members | |
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Setting realistic goals of therapy | |
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Conducting therapy in the home | |
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Managing conflict in the home | |
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Living with the uncertainty of prognosis | |
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Dropouts from FFGT | |
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Telephone contact initiated by the therapist | |
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The therapist's role and style of intervening during therapy | |
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Conclusion | |
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The impact of specific life events upon families | |
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'Double cancer' in a family | |
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Families with an alcoholic parent | |
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The family with adopted children | |
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Families with a mentally ill member | |
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Families with chronic physical illness | |
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Families with prominent cultural differences | |
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Divorce and remarriage--issues in blended families | |
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Families with adolescent children | |
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Families with an obvious symptom bearer | |
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Conclusion | |
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The ethical dimension | |
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Is there an ethical framework that guides FFGT? | |
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Ethical issues that arise in the practice of FFGT | |
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Who is the family when gaining their informed consent? | |
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Our model of functioning--an invitation to consider or imposition? | |
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Brief and focused versus long-term and exploratory | |
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Practical issues that arise in therapy | |
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Conclusion | |
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Clinical application of the FFGT model | |
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FFGT--a structured, preventative and cost-effective model | |
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Bereavement care begins with palliative care | |
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What is the current status of a 'family meeting' in palliative care? | |
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Service development issues | |
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Application of the model | |
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Screening | |
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Does FFGT work? | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Family Relationships Index (FRI) | |
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Tables of results from the Melbourne family grief studies | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |