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 |
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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 |
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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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Teenagers and death |
Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Explaining death to children. 1967 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Audience |
Adult |
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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Teenagers and death.
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Author |
Grollman, Earl A.
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LC no. |
94040338 |
ISBN |
080702306X |
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0807023078 |
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