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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 | |