Self-help groups for the bereaved: Theory,theology, and practice |
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Authors: | Dennis Klass |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Religion, Webster College, 470 E. Lockwood, 63119 St. Louis, Missouri |
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Abstract: | Self-help groups for the bereaved are a relatively unexplored area of wholistic ministry. The article grows out of the author's experience as an advisor to a local chapter of The Compassionate Friends, a group of parents whose children have died. The article explores the self-help concept, describes the experience of losing a child and the way the self-help process functions in that dynamic, and enumerates some roles the author has been able to fill as an aid to a local chapter. Within that framework, the article shows the affinities between self-help and ministry.Dennis Klass, Ph.D., is Chairman of the Department of Religion at Webster College in St. Louis. He is also co-author ofThey Need to Know: How to Teach Children about Death, published by Prentice-Hall in 1979. |
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