No Couple Should Lose Their Relationship After Losing A Child.
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Losing a child is one of life’s most painful experiences. Sarah & Kaliym were heartbroken when their daughter Elizabeth Rose was stillborn, and were shocked to learn couples who lose a child are at greater risk of losing their relationship. In her memory, The Elizabeth Rose Foundation subsidises evidence-based couples therapy for couples experiencing relationship difficulties after the sudden and unexpected loss of a child during pregnancy, birth, infancy or childhood.
Couples Who Lose A Child Are At Greater Risk Of Losing Their Relationship
Grief after the loss of a child can place profound strain on a couple’s relationship, and bereaved parents are at greater risk of losing their relationship. It feels almost unthinkable that someone could endure the out‑of‑order death of their child — an experience many consider among the most devastating — and then also face the possibility of losing their relationship in the aftermath.
The Risk
In Australia, there is no government funded couples therapy for bereaved parents. The Medicare Better Access Initiative rebates grief and loss individual therapy but not couples therapy.
Not-for-profit organisations typically provide individual bereavement support services through peer support groups and counselling, and even fewer provide couples the chance to work through their relationship difficulties together.
The Need
The Elizabeth Rose Foundation is the first Queensland based charity to provide couples the chance to process their grief together and address their relationship difficulties after the sudden and unexpected loss of a child by subsidising evidence-based couples therapy.
The Help
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