The health care social worker's role in facilitating grief work: an empirical study.
In this research, 155 people who had recently experienced the loss of someone they cared about rated the extent to which different social work activities would or would not have been helpful to them at the time of their loss. Discussion of the data focuses on how social workers in a health setting can assist individuals who are grieving.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003643:Death; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D012947:Social Work; D014705:Verbal Behavior