TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Grief memoirs: the familiarity of helping professionals with the genre and its potential incorporation into grief therapy
JO  - Death studies
A1  - Małecka, Katarzyna A.
A1  - Bottomley, Jamison S.
SP  - 842
EP  - 850
VL  - 46
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0748-1187
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2019.1705938
ID  - ref1
ER  -