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© British Association of Social Workers

Coping with a Life-threatening Illness: an Experiment in Parents' Groups

E. MAY BYWATER

May Bywater graduated with a BA in 1962 at Queen's University, Belfast, completed her professional social work training in 1964 at Edinburgh University, and did a groupwork training course in London in 1975–76. She worked in several Edinburgh Hospitals before moving to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street in 1974 where she is at present the Cystic Fibrosis Social Worker.

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Four separate series of parents' groups were held between 1977 and 1981 in order to help certain parents of children who suffer from cystic fibrosis which is a serious life-threatening disease. These group experiences were found helpful by those parents who did not have overt problems and who were therefore unlikely to be referred for individual counselling. Families who had obvious problems, for example marital, financial or psychiatric were apparently not helped by the experience, nor were the parents of newly diagnosed patients.

As a result of this groupwork experiment it may be possible to predict those families who are unsuitable for groupwork help.


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