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Author Abrams, Rebecca

Title When parents die : learning to live with the loss of a parent / Rebecca Abrams
Edition 3rd ed
Published New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents WHEN PARENTS DIE Learning to live with the loss of aparent; Copyright; Letters from Readers; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1 My story; 2 First days, last rites; 3 Different deaths, different griefs; 4 Mourning time: the first year; 5 Mourning time: the second year and after; 6 Changes and losses: the private kind; 7 Changes and losses: the public kind; 8 Old grief in new guises; 9 Pathways to the future; Useful organizations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for adults too, a parent's death can be a tremendous blow. When Parents Die speaks to bereaved children of all ages. Rebecca Abrams draws on her personal and professional understandings of parental loss, as well as the experiences of many other adults, teenagers and children, to provide the reader with an honest, compassionate and insightful exploration of the experience of losing a pa
Notes Print version record
Subject Grief.
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects
Loss (Psychology)
Bereavement.
Death.
Parents.
Grief
Adolescent
Bereavement
Death
Parents
grief.
mourning.
deaths.
parents.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
SELF-HELP -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Grief.
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Loss (Psychology)
Parents
Death
Bereavement
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects
Grief
Loss (Psychology)
Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1136171126
9781136171123
9780203081013
0203081013