Couples who have experienced SIDS of a child and subsequently experienced relational difficulties.

What is it about?

This paper is about the varieties of difficulties which couples who experienced SIDS of a child bring to therapy and the various approaches that clinicians can employ to help couples deal with the pain of losing a child to SIDS.

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Why is it important?

At the time I wrote this paper issues and concerns about SIDS were prime topics of discussion among medical, mental health and family life professionals as well as parents young and old. A majority of Americans had not heard of SIDS. As a result, many myths about the syndrome were disseminated. Consequently, when parents did experience a SIDS death of a child, more often than not persons external to the parents tended to blame the parents. Not infrequently, some parents also tended to blame each other. Since I had provided therapy for the parents about whom I wrote, I believed I had something of worth to share with other mental professionals. consequently, this paper represents my insights about the varieties of concerns such parents bring to therapy and my sucess in helping them dealing with those concerns.