TY - JOUR
AU - Staver, Nancy
AB - There are two main foci for any help the who contact newly widowed women shortly after bereaved must receive: one is to express, under­ their husbands have died without waiting for them stand, and accept their feelings about what has to initiate a call for help. These findings tend to happened; the other is to break the ties with the confirm and support those of the many mutual deceased and learn new roles, without acting as if help programs developing all over the Western the past had not existed. The bereaved need to be world. Ritual specialists become veterans who, building on their own experience, are available to reintegrated into society as active, involved people who are no longer mourners. How is this to be help others and thereby are able to reach all the bereaved in the community. achieved? Not only are there new rites of passage Mutual help has value in its own right. The that indicate the end of the mourning period, but there are none that show mourners how to find a helper legitimizes the bereaveds' distressing new life for themselves. How can these ends be feelings, provides them with a role model, and achieved? 
TI - Book Review: Group Care of Children: Crossroads and Transitions
JF - Social Casework
DO - 10.1177/104438947906000410
DA - 1979-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-group-care-of-children-crossroads-and-transitions-b0nA04UawJ
SP - 250
EP - 251
VL - 60
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -