Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Developing and facilitating AIDS bereavement support groups

  • Published:
Group

Abstract

This article describes the components necessary to develop and facilitate effective AIDS bereavement support groups. Group purpose, establishment, composition, and leadership are detailed. Special features of AIDS bereavement are described.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Bowes, J. G., & Dickson, J. F. (1991). Support group for those affected by AIDS in the family.American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, May/June, 39–45.

    Google Scholar 

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (1993). Update: Mortality attributed to HIV infection among persons aged 25–44 years-United States, 1991 and 1992Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 42(45), 869–872.

    Google Scholar 

  • Giovinco, G., & Monahan, J. R. (1993). Logotherapy and bereavement: A comparison of the grief response of survivors of individuals who died from AIDS and individuals who died from other causes. Paper, versions presented at the International Conference for Primary Care Physicians, The Hague, June, & the First International Conference on Nursing Research at Jordan University, Amman, September.

  • Monahan, J. R. (1993, May). Grief and personality. Paper presented at Aspects of Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy Conference, sponsored by the National Association of Loss and Grief, Sydney.

  • Murphy, P., & Perry, K. (1988). Hidden grievers.Death Studies, 12, 451–462.

    Google Scholar 

  • National Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (1993).HIV/AIDS surveillance report (3rd quarter ed.). Atlanta: Author.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parkes, C. M. (1986).Bereavement studies of grief in adult life (2nd ed.). New York: Tavistock Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rando, T. A. (1984).Grief, dying, and death. Champaign, IL: Research Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Raphael, B. (1983).The anatomy of bereavement. New York: Basic Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Worden, J. W. (1991).Grief counseling and grief therapy (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • Worden, J. W., & Monahan, J. R. (1993). Caring for bereaved parents. In A. Armstrong-Dailey & S. Zarbock Goltzer (Eds.),Hospice care for children (pp. 122–139). New York: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Hospice of Volusia/Flagler, 655 N. Clyde Morris Blvd., 32114, Daytona Beach, FL

    James R. Monahan (Director of Planning and Special Projects)

Authors
  1. James R. Monahan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Monahan, J.R. Developing and facilitating AIDS bereavement support groups. Group 18, 177–185 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01456588

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01456588

Keywords

Search

Navigation