ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a portion of the clinical material gathered from the first year of a four-year research grant, 2 studying the application of crisis intervention techniques to bereaved families as a means of primary prevention. The hypothesis of this study is that intervention at the time of a sudden death will reduce the higher morbidity and mortality rates found by other workers (e.g., Rees and Lutkins, 1967) to occur in the surviving family members.
