Tuesday, August 07, 2007
A critique, a newsletter, a new directory
Larson Dale, Hoyt William T
Deterioration effects in grief counseling: in search of the evidence
This is the Powerpoint presentation of a talk given at a National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization conference in the US in April 2006.
It is primarily a critique of the research cited in the US Center for the Advancement of Health(2003) publication titled Report on bereavement and grief research. (Cited elsewhere in this blog). This report suggests that bereavement counselling can often be regarded as ineffective and can even produce negative effects. In particular, Larson and Hoyt query the reliability of the TIDE statistical procedure which was originally used by Fortner in 1999 to complete a doctoral dissertation on the effectiveness of grief counseling. Larson and Hoyt’s study suggests that the negative views of grief counseling which have been given credence by researchers such as Fortner cannot be substantiated.
view Dale Larson’s publications page on
http://www.scu.edu/Hospice/
and then click on link to Deterioration effects in grief counseling
http://www.scu.edu/Hospice/larson_hoyt_nhpco_grief_counseling_panel06.pdf
Follow up with a press release that summarises an article soon to be published on their own analysis of bereavement research studies
http://huehueteotl.wordpress.com/ (Accessed 6th August 2007)
As a librarian, it is very satisfying to find a requested article freely available on the web. In the last week someone asked me for an article called Touching souls: healing with bereavement photography. This was in volume 29 no 2 of Forum. I found that Forum is the newsletter of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. 12 of these newsletters are available online at
http://www.adec.org/resources/Forum_articles.cfm
The Directory of Bereavement Services in the UK 2007 has recently been published by Cruse Bereavement Care, Help the Hospices and Resource Information Service.
A directory of national bereavement services was published in 1992 by the National Association of Bereavement Services. It is now well out of date and it is to be hoped that the partnership that has published this new directory will be able to maintain its currency over the coming years. (Cost £25).
Deterioration effects in grief counseling: in search of the evidence
This is the Powerpoint presentation of a talk given at a National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization conference in the US in April 2006.
It is primarily a critique of the research cited in the US Center for the Advancement of Health(2003) publication titled Report on bereavement and grief research. (Cited elsewhere in this blog). This report suggests that bereavement counselling can often be regarded as ineffective and can even produce negative effects. In particular, Larson and Hoyt query the reliability of the TIDE statistical procedure which was originally used by Fortner in 1999 to complete a doctoral dissertation on the effectiveness of grief counseling. Larson and Hoyt’s study suggests that the negative views of grief counseling which have been given credence by researchers such as Fortner cannot be substantiated.
view Dale Larson’s publications page on
http://www.scu.edu/Hospice/
and then click on link to Deterioration effects in grief counseling
http://www.scu.edu/Hospice/larson_hoyt_nhpco_grief_counseling_panel06.pdf
Follow up with a press release that summarises an article soon to be published on their own analysis of bereavement research studies
http://huehueteotl.wordpress.com/ (Accessed 6th August 2007)
As a librarian, it is very satisfying to find a requested article freely available on the web. In the last week someone asked me for an article called Touching souls: healing with bereavement photography. This was in volume 29 no 2 of Forum. I found that Forum is the newsletter of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. 12 of these newsletters are available online at
http://www.adec.org/resources/Forum_articles.cfm
The Directory of Bereavement Services in the UK 2007 has recently been published by Cruse Bereavement Care, Help the Hospices and Resource Information Service.
A directory of national bereavement services was published in 1992 by the National Association of Bereavement Services. It is now well out of date and it is to be hoped that the partnership that has published this new directory will be able to maintain its currency over the coming years. (Cost £25).
