title: Family-based grief counselling.
abstract: The family constitutes the key social group involved with mourning. A model of family response patterns to bereavement is presented that contrasts the adaptive family's response with maladaptive patterns that are avoidant, distorted, inflexible or that amplify grief. Guidelines in working with these families are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Service, Monash Medical Centre.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Kissane
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005194:Family Practice; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans