| Description |
xv, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Jack D. Gordon -- Preface / Kenneth J. Doka -- 1. Children's Understanding of Death - Striving to Understand Death / Charles A. Corr -- 2. Grieving Children: Can We Answer Their Questions / Earl A. Grollman -- 3. Talking to Children about Illness / Kenneth J. Doka -- 4. The Child and Life-Threatening Illness / Paul Alexander -- 5. Children and HIV: Orphans and Victims / Gary R. Anderson -- 6. Grief of Children and Parents / Catherine M. Sanders -- 7. Children and Traumatic Loss / Ronald K. Barrett -- 8. How Can We Help / Stephen P. Hersh -- 9. The Role of the School / Robert G. Stevenson -- 10. Worlds of Dying Children and Their Well Siblings / Myra Bluebond-Langner -- 11. Detachment Revisited: The Child's Reconstruction of a Dead Parent / Phyllis Silverman, Steven Nickman and J. William Worden -- 12. The Empty Space Phenomenon: The Process of Grief in the Bereaved Family / S. G. McClowry, E. B. Davies, K. A. May, E. J. Kulenkamp and I. M. Martinson |
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A Sampler of Literature for Young Readers: Death, Dying, and Bereavement / Charles A. Corr -- Selected and Annotated Bibliographies / Charles A. Corr |
| Summary |
The Hospice Foundation of America, begun in 1982, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing leadership in the development of hospice and its philosophy of care for terminally-ill people. The Foundation conducts educational programs related to hospice, sponsors research on ethical questions as well as the economics of health care at the end-of-life, and serves as a philanthropic presence within the national hospice community. The Foundation provides grants across a broad spectrum of hospice-related programs - including physician education on palliative medicine, AIDS education/prevention, seminary-student internships in hospices, training for nurses to communicate with the hearing impaired through sign language, increasing minority use of hospice, and dealing with grief-in-the-workplace. This year, in addition to this teleconference, the Hospice Foundation of America began publishing a monthly newsletter, Journeys, written for hospices and others to distribute to the bereaved, began a hospice information and educational outreach program to members of the military through family service centers and chaplains, and produced A Guide for Recalling and Telling Your Life Story, to assist people in writing their autobiographies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-178) |
| Subject |
Bereavement in children.
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Children and death.
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Grief in children.
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Parents -- Death.
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Terminally ill children -- Psychology.
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| Author |
Doka, Kenneth J.
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| LC no. |
95012114 |
| ISBN |
1560324473 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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