Social support networks and the crisis of bereavement☆
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The authors wish to express their appreciation to colleagues in the Community Resources Service. Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, especially Dr. S.J.J. Freeman, for their assistance and support in the preparation of this paper.
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Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Principal Researcher of the project “A Preventive Intervention for the Newly Bereaved”, supported as a Demonstration Model Grant by the Ontario Ministry of Health (D.M. 158).