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Wells, Paula J. – Social Work, 1993
Provides guidelines from social work perspective on how social workers and health care professionals can provide bereavement counseling for families whose relatives have died in emergency room. Discusses providing family with privacy and accessibility; keeping family informed; using understandable terminology; speaking directly about death;…
Descriptors: Bereavement, Coping, Crisis Intervention, Death