Bereaved Children and Teens: A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals
Bringing together fourteen experts from across the United States and Canada, Bereaved Children and Teens is a comprehensive guide to helping children and adolescents cope with the emotional, religious, social, and physical consequences of a loved one's death. The result is an indispensable reference for parents, teachers, counselors, health-care professionals, and clergy.\ Topics covered include what to say and what not to say when explaining death to very young children; how teenagers grieve...
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A comprehensive guide to help parents and children of all ages cope with the emotional, religious, social, and physical aspects of a loved one's death. Topics range from explaining how adolescents grieve to outlining concrete methods that help children cope. Library Journal Almost 30 years ago, Grollman wrote a groundbreaking work for children on death, Explaining Death to Children (LJ 11/1/67). Since then, Americans have made strides toward viewing death as a natural part of life, not an occasion to be denied or ignored, and for the most part this attitude is being taught to children. Grollman now brings together articles from 14 writers (teachers, medical professionals, clergy, and counselors) to address diverse subtopics, such as terminal illness, death education in schools, responses among different faiths and ethnic groups, and the use of film and drama to teach about death. His selections stress the importance of grief and attendance at a funeral and burial or marking closure in some definite way. The value here is in recognizing wide, diverse responses to death while supporting the idea that since death is part of life, children need to be prepared. For most collections.-Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, Pa.
AcknowledgmentsPrefacePt. 1Death, Development, and Relationships11Explaining Death to Young Children: Some Questions and Answers32Entering into Adolescent Understandings of Death213Friends, Teachers, Movie Stars: The Disenfranchised Grief of Children374Talking to Children about the Terminal Illness of a Loved One475Toward Siblings' Understanding and Perspectives of Death61Pt. 2Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Perspectives on Death and Children756Children and Death: Diversity in Universality777Behind Smiles and Laughter: African-American Children's Issues about Bereavement938Protestant Perspectives on Grief and Children1139Life, Death, and the Catholic Child12910Explaining Death to Children from Jewish Perspectives14111A Philosopher Looks at Children and Death159Pt. 3Treatments and Therapies That Can Help Children Cope with Death16912Care of the Dying Child17113"I Thought about Death All the Time...": Students, Teachers, and the Understanding of Death18114Special Needs of Bereaved Children: Effective Tools for Helping19515Using Story, Film, and Drama to Help Children Cope with Death213Index231
\ Library JournalAlmost 30 years ago, Grollman wrote a groundbreaking work for children on death, Explaining Death to Children (LJ 11/1/67). Since then, Americans have made strides toward viewing death as a natural part of life, not an occasion to be denied or ignored, and for the most part this attitude is being taught to children. Grollman now brings together articles from 14 writers (teachers, medical professionals, clergy, and counselors) to address diverse subtopics, such as terminal illness, death education in schools, responses among different faiths and ethnic groups, and the use of film and drama to teach about death. His selections stress the importance of grief and attendance at a funeral and burial or marking closure in some definite way. The value here is in recognizing wide, diverse responses to death while supporting the idea that since death is part of life, children need to be prepared. For most collections.-Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, Pa.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsA fairly comprehensive guide to helping children and adolescents cope with the emotional, religious, social, and physical aspects of a loved one's death. Topics range from how adolescents grieve differently from adults to concrete ways to help children cope. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
