For anyone coping with loss or life transition, here is a guide to the support group process.

If you need help coping with loss--of a loved one, a marriage, or a way of life--Harriet Sarnoff Schiff offers wise, compassionate guidance in The Support Group Manual. Here is straightforward advice on finding participants, locating or becoming a facilitator, and establishing effective ground rules. Schiff also provides a flexible agenda for seven group sessions--focusing on the topics of denial, anger, religion, guilt, depression, powerlessness, and acceptance--designed to give...