Using a community networking approach in a bereavement program.
This paper reviews the history of St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Program. St. Anthony's provides bereavement counseling and death education to the community using a networking approach involving the educational, religious, social, and mental health organizations in the area. At present, this model features a church satellite program, grief recovery and anticipatory grief seminars, on-going bereavement support and social support groups, volunteer speakers' bureau, a volunteer staffed bereavement team, and training of psychology, nursing, and medical students.
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D001601:Bereavement; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006117:Grief; D006738:Hospices / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012944:Social Support; D013781:Texas; D014838:Volunteers