What do people really think about grief counseling? Examining community attitudes

© 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. To understand why bereaved people who are highly distressed significantly underutilize grief counseling and therapy, we surveyed adults (N = 156) to investigate community attitudes toward grief counseling. Overall attitude was positive and women repo...

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Main Authors: Breen, Lauren, Croucamp, C., Rees, Clare
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71943
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description © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. To understand why bereaved people who are highly distressed significantly underutilize grief counseling and therapy, we surveyed adults (N = 156) to investigate community attitudes toward grief counseling. Overall attitude was positive and women reported a significantly more positive attitude than men; there were no associations between attitude and age, country of birth, previous counseling, or bereavement experience. After controlling for gender, beliefs and affects explained attitudes toward grief counseling; behavioral responses did not. Targeting beliefs about grief counseling may promote positive attitudes so that people most likely to benefit from intervention will be more likely to seek it.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-719432018-12-13T09:33:19Z What do people really think about grief counseling? Examining community attitudes Breen, Lauren Croucamp, C. Rees, Clare © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. To understand why bereaved people who are highly distressed significantly underutilize grief counseling and therapy, we surveyed adults (N = 156) to investigate community attitudes toward grief counseling. Overall attitude was positive and women reported a significantly more positive attitude than men; there were no associations between attitude and age, country of birth, previous counseling, or bereavement experience. After controlling for gender, beliefs and affects explained attitudes toward grief counseling; behavioral responses did not. Targeting beliefs about grief counseling may promote positive attitudes so that people most likely to benefit from intervention will be more likely to seek it. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71943 10.1080/07481187.2018.1506527 Routledge restricted
spellingShingle Breen, Lauren
Croucamp, C.
Rees, Clare
What do people really think about grief counseling? Examining community attitudes
title What do people really think about grief counseling? Examining community attitudes
title_full What do people really think about grief counseling? Examining community attitudes
title_fullStr What do people really think about grief counseling? Examining community attitudes
title_full_unstemmed What do people really think about grief counseling? Examining community attitudes
title_short What do people really think about grief counseling? Examining community attitudes
title_sort what do people really think about grief counseling? examining community attitudes
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71943