Abstract
42 bereaved parents (aged 28–66 yrs) were requested to (a) listen to an audiotaped testimony of a bereaved parent's experience in coping with the death of a child during the phases of numbing, yearning and searching for the lost figure, disorganization and despair, and reorganization; (b) discuss how their experience in coping with their child's death compared to what they listened to on tape; and (c) for each phase, complete the Scale of Counseling Dimension Preferences, which depicts preferences for action orientation or insight orientation, cognition or conation, and structure or ambiguity. Results suggest that bereaved parents have generalized preferences for counseling dimensions during different phases of grieving. Findings are discussed in terms of influences that facilitate the grieving process of bereaved parents during individual psychological counseling. (20 ref)Preview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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