| Description |
xxi, 264 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. Narrative: Mother, 3-year-old daughter -- 2. Childhood bereavement studies -- 3. Stages of the illness and child development -- 4. Study sample, intervention, bereavement model, methodology -- 5. Pre-school children 3-5 years of age: responses variations -- 6. Narrative: Mother, 4 and 7 year old daughters -- 7. Children: 6-8 years of age: responses variations -- 8. Narratives: -- Mother, 7 year-old son and 4-year-old daughter -- Father, 7 and 20 year-old daughters -- 9. Children, 9-11 years of age: response variations -- 10. Narratives: -- Father, 10-year-old daughter -- Mother, 7 and 11 year old daughters and a 10-year-old son -- 11. Children 12-14 years of age: responses variations -- 12. Narratives -- Father, 12-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son -- Mother, 12-year-old son -- 13. Children, 15-17 years of age: response variations -- 14. Narratives: -- Father, 13 and 16 year old daughters and 15-year-old son -- Mother, 16-year-old daughter -- 15. Conclusion -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
The author "relates the powerfully moving stories of eighty-eight families and their 157 children (ages 3 to 17) who participated in a parent-guidance intervention through the terminal illness and death of one of the parents from cancer."--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Bereavement in adolescence.
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Bereavement in children.
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Children and death.
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Grief in adolescence.
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Grief in children.
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Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Teenagers and death.
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Grief.
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Adaptation, Psychological.
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Adolescent.
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Attitude to Death.
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Child.
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Neoplasms -- mortality.
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Parents.
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| LC no. |
99154342 |
| ISBN |
0195105907 (cased) |
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0195105915 (paperback) |
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