@article{ref1,
title="Grief memoirs: the familiarity of helping professionals with the genre and its potential incorporation into grief therapy",
journal="Death studies",
year="2022",
author="Małecka, Katarzyna A. and Bottomley, Jamison S.",
volume="46",
number="4",
pages="842-850",
abstract="The grief memoir is a fast-developing genre that in recent decades has become a popular form of public mourning and self-therapy in many Western cultures, especially in the United States and Great Britain. We surveyed 76 helping professionals to assess if the grief memoir is a genre with which they are familiar and whether they employ such narratives as an adjunct in their work with the bereaved. Most bibliotherapeutic studies focus either on self-help or affective literature. This study is unique in evaluating a life writing genre which promises to combine the therapeutic benefits of both.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0748-1187",
doi="10.1080/07481187.2019.1705938",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2019.1705938"
}