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A district service for bereavement care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Colin Murray Parkes
Colin Murray Parkes*
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London Hospital Medical College, London E1 2AD
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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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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , March 1990 , pp. 157
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

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