| Description |
xxv, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Children, development, and encounters with death, bereavement, and coping / Charles A. Corr -- Children's emerging awareness and understandings of loss and death / Charles A. Corr -- Ethical issues in counseling bereaved and seriously ill children / Heather L. Servaty-Seib and Sara J. Tedrick -- Ethics, research, and dying or bereaved children / Andrea C. Walker -- Infant deaths / Beth A. Seyda and Ann M. Fitzsimons -- Children, unintentional injuries, and homicide / Edith Crumb and Amy Griffith Taylor -- Children and infectious diseases / Craig Demmer -- Children living with life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses : a dispatch from the front lines / Michael M. Stevens ... [et al.] -- Children bereaved by the death of a parent / Grace H. Christ -- Sibling bereavement in childhood / Katrina Koehler -- Death of a friend during childhood / Diane Synder Cowan -- Children's bereavement over the deaths of pets / Tamina Toray -- Children and traumatic deaths / Donna L. Schuurman and Jana DeCristofaro -- Talking to children about death-related issues / Jane Moore and Clint Moore III -- Educating children about death-related issues / Kathryn A. Markell -- Helping families help bereaved children / Katrina Koehler -- Supporting resilience in bereaved youth in sub-Saharan Africa who have lost a parent to HIV/AIDS / Melissa J. Hagan and Irwin N. Sandler -- Principles and practices of peer support groups and camp-based interventions for grieving children / Donna L. Schuurman and Jana DeCristofaro -- Using expressive arts when counseling bereaved children / Dayna D. Wood and Rebekah Lancto Near -- Children with developmental disabilities, death, and grief / Marc A. Markell and John H. Hoover -- Pediatric palliative and hospice care / Stacy F. Orloff and Susan M. Huff -- Psychotherapeutic approaches for children with life-threatening illnesses / Michelle R. Brown and Barbara Sourkes -- Selected books to be read by or with children / Charles A. Corr. |
| Summary |
"Children struggling with death-related issues require care and competent assistance from the adults around them. This book serves as a guide for care providers, including counselors, social workers, nurses, educators, clergy, and parents who seek to understand and help children as they attempt to cope with loss." "This book comprehensively discusses death and grieving within the context of the physical, emotional, social, behavioral, spiritual, and cognitive changes that children experience while coping with death. The chapters also explore new critical, imaginative conceptual models and interventions, including expressive am therapy, resilience-based approaches, new psychotherapeutic approaches, and more."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Children and death.
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Grief in children.
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Bereavement in children.
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Adjustment (Psychology) in children.
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Bereavement.
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Adaptation, Psychological.
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Attitude to Death.
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Child.
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| Added Author |
Corr, Charles A.
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Balk, David E., 1943-
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| ISBN |
9780826134226 alkaline paper |
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082613422X alkaline paper |
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