@article{ref1,
title="Parents' evaluation of a preventive intervention following the sudden, violent deaths of their children",
journal="Death studies",
year="1996",
author="Murphy, Shirley A. and Baugher, R. and Lohan, Janet and Scheideman, J. and Heerwagen, J. and Johnson, L. Clark and Tillery, L. and Grover, M. C.",
volume="20",
number="5",
pages="453-468",
abstract="A preventive intervention for 156 bereaved parents whose 12- to 28-year-old children died by accident, homicide, or suicide was tested using a multisite longitudinal cohort pretest/posttest experimental design.  Reported here are bereaved parents' evaluations of the two-dimensional support program.  Problem-focused support was rated by parents' perceptions of readiness, relevance, timing, and understanding of the information and skills presented.  Emotion-focused support was rated by the identification of I. Yalom's (1985) therapeutic group factors and group leader/clinician support.  Over 70% of all the person/session responses showed that both support dimensions were rated at 6 or 7 on a 7-point scale (e.g., 0 = not at all relevant, 7 = very relevant.)  Additional exploratory analyses examined the extent to which 5 participant and treatment characteristics influenced parents' evaluations.  Clinical implications and future research directions are suggested.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0748-1187",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}