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Author Grollman, Earl A.

Title Bereaved children and teens : a support guide for parents and professionals / edited by Earl A. Grollman
Published Boston : Beacon Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description xii, 238 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Pt. 1. Death, Development, and Relationships. 1. Explaining Death to Young Children: Some Questions and Answers / Earl A. Grollman. 2. Entering into Adolescent Understandings of Death / Charles A. Corr. 3. Friends, Teachers, Movie Stars: The Disenfranchised Grief of Children / Kenneth J. Doka. 4. Talking to Children about the Terminal Illness of a Loved One / Gerri L. Sweder. 5. Toward Siblings' Understanding and Perspectives of Death / Betty Davies -- Pt. 2. Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Perspectives on Death and Children. 6. Children and Death: Diversity in Universality / Donald P. Irish. 7. Behind Smiles and Laughter: African-American Children's Issues about Bereavement / William Lee, Jr. 8. Protestant Perspectives on Grief and Children / Richard B. Gilbert. 9. Life, Death, and the Catholic Child / Mary Ann McLaughlin. 10. Explaining Death to Children from Jewish Perspectives / Earl A. Grollman. 11. A Philosopher Looks at Children and Death / John D. Morgan
Pt. 3. Treatments and Therapies That Can Help Children Cope with Death. 12. Care of the Dying Child / Ann Armstrong-Dailey. 13. "I Thought about Death All the Time...": Students, Teachers, and the Understanding of Death / Robert G. Stevenson. 14. Special Needs of Bereaved Children: Effective Tools for Helping / MaryAnne Schreder. 15. Using Story, Film, and Drama to Help Children Cope with Death / Sandra L. Bertman
Summary This book discusses the ability of children and adolescents to understand death, and the ways in which they react to death and grieve. It looks at death according to perspectives of protestant, catholic and jewish traditions. It looks at treatments and therapies that can help children cope with death
Analysis Bereavement in adolescence
Bereavement in children
Children and death
Grief in adolescence
Grief in children
Teenagers and death
Notes Rev. ed. of: Explaining death to children. 1967
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Adult
Subject Bereavement in adolescence.
Bereavement in children.
Children and death.
Grief in adolescence.
Grief in children.
Teenagers and death.
Author Grollman, Earl A.
LC no. 94040338
ISBN 080702306X
0807023078
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