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Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research 3: 341-347, 1994
Copyright © 1994 American Psychiatric Association, Inc.

Psychotherapy of Bereavement After Homicide

TED RYNEARSON M.D.1

1 Section of Psychiatry, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington.

Dr. Rynearson, Section of Psychiatry, Virginia Mason Medical Center, 1100 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98111.

The author presents guidelines for the assessment and initial treatment of bereavement after a homicide. Early interventions include nonverbal techniques applied in individual and group therapy. Because patients are over-whelmed and reactive, initial treatment strategy is supportive and focuses on reestablishing resiliency rather than on preexisting vulnerabilities (ambivalence, guilt, repression, denial). Adjustment to homicidal dying is lifelong, and therapist and patient should acknowledge that change may be limited.

Submitted on July 7, 1993
Revised on April 11, 1994
Accepted on April 20, 1994






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