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A district service for bereavement care
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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Bereavement counselling is one of the few examples of preventive psychiatry to have proved its worth in well conducted random allocation studies (Raphael, 1977; Parkes, 1981). If, as the work of Paykel (1974) and Brown & Harris (1978) suggests, major losses are the life events most often associated with the onset of clinical depression, then psychiatrists would do well to involve themselves in the work of any organisation which aims to meet the psychological needs of the bereaved.
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