What Has Become of Grief Counseling? An Evaluation of the Empirical Foundations of the New Pessimism

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 347-355

  Larson, Dale G ^a   Hoyt, William T ^b  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

bereavement; grief counseling; grief therapy; scientist practitioner model; treatment deterioration

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548842812     PISSN: 07357028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7028.38.4.347     Document Type: Article

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