Widow to Widow: How the Bereaved Help One Another

"Widow to Widow powerfully links theory and practice perspectives through the extensive use of case illustrations...its comprehensive knowledge base and the challenge to the professional monopoly of bereavement care, makes this an important text for all carers, new or experienced, who are offering support to the widowed." - Linda Machin in BereavementCare Vol.25, No.2.

Author: Phyllis R. Silverman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/28/2004
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 5.14h x 10.68w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780415947497

About the Author
Phyllis R. Silverman, Ph.D., is Scholar-in-Residence at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, and Associate Professor in Social Welfare, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Silverman is also Professor Emerita of the MGH Institute of Health Professions, and she is recognized internationally for her research with the widowed and grieving children, and for the pioneer intervention she developed based on peer support.