Table 1.

Suggested structure of the writing program

Participants	Meetings	Writing situations
6–8 bereaved adultsa in each group	10 meetings over 5 months (in total): every second week for 2.5 hours for 3 months once a month thereafter for 2.5 hours	Writing in a group Supervised dialogue Writing in a diary at home between each meeting Homework

Note:

^aBereaved adults means people who have lost someone close to them as a result of death (loss of a child is an exclusion criterion).