ABSTRACT
The Association for Death education and Counseling has made an important contribution by reducing membership dues and conference fees for students and new professionals just starting out their careers. Randomized control trials, surveys, quality assurance measures, meta-analyses and interviews all provide important contributions to better understanding what bereaved individuals need in the way of social support after a loved one's death. In referencing the interview, Burke et al. suggested, Pointing Black homicide survivors toward church or faith-based counseling and grief support groups would likely affirm aspects of their culture that can aid them in the grieving process. Engaging people from people groups other than the dominant cultural group has been an ongoing challenge in bereavement interventions. Perhaps people of immigrant/newcomer communities as well as people of other nondominant social groups have some built-in sense of community support, making community bereavement support groups irrelevant. Bereavement support groups are a real and enduring part of the grief landscape.
