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Children and Death: Perspectives from Birth through Adolescence » Read Now
by John E. Schowalter, Penelope Buschman, Paul R. Patterson. 215 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Bringing together the views of numerous distinguished scholars, Children and Death investigates the child's concept of death from both academic and clinical points of view. The contributors have aimed at developing practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary approach to the care and support of the...
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Bringing together the views of numerous distinguished scholars, Children and Death investigates the child's concept of death from both academic and clinical points of view. The contributors have aimed at developing practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary approach to the care and support of the dying child, the child's family unit, and staff who work with dying children. The findings presented here are also applicable to care of children with life-threatening illness. Topics discussed include: children's concepts of death; emotional impact of disease; perspectives on children's death and dying; and coping with a child's death.
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Planning and Managing Death Issues in the Schools » Read Now
by Robert L. Deaton, William A. Berkan . 190 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

By managing death issues in a planned purposeful manner, schools can reduce suicide and other harmful behavioral reactions substantially. Helping students to understand death and loss is part of assisting them to become resilient, proactive individuals. Age-appropriate curriculum materials are...
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By managing death issues in a planned purposeful manner, schools can reduce suicide and other harmful behavioral reactions substantially. Helping students to understand death and loss is part of assisting them to become resilient, proactive individuals. Age-appropriate curriculum materials are provided for educating children and teenagers on issues of health, emotional depression, grief, and death. Ways of counseling in schools following the death of a student, teacher, or staff member are explored in detail. Signs of depression and at-risk behavior among teenagers are described as part of a comprehensive approach to prevention, intervention, and postvention concerning death, violence, and self-destructive behavior. The authors share strategies that have proved effective in helping students to focus away from self-destructive, violent single-path solutions to developing positive social skills and alternative plans. Developing a comprehensive school plan in anticipation of a death occurrence and training staff in its implementation greatly reduces emotional stress.
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Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families » Read Now
by Glenda Fredman. 148 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

This book tackles head on the often tabooed subject of death. It distils sophisticated clinical work into simple language, and describes simple techniques for talking to children about dying. The author makes sophisticated material accessible to a much wider range of practitioners than trained therapists.
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Helping Children Live with Death and Loss » Read Now
by Judy C. Drolet, Joyce V. Fetro, Dinah Seibert. 135 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

Helping Children Live with Death and Loss is a practical guide for parents, caregivers, teachers, clergy, funeral directors, and other adults who may interact with young children between the ages of two and ten. Utilizing a developmental approach that is critical for understanding the unique...
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Helping Children Live with Death and Loss is a practical guide for parents, caregivers, teachers, clergy, funeral directors, and other adults who may interact with young children between the ages of two and ten. Utilizing a developmental approach that is critical for understanding the unique characteristics and needs among children under ten, the volume is enhanced by an accessible style and format, numerous illustrations, and the positive attitude that make it possible for any reader to comprehend and apply the concepts when discussing death and loss with young children.
The scope of concepts ranges from adult self-assessment to knowledge of children's developmental stages in learning. Building on that foundation, the book provides four basic content areas for teaching, supplies sample questions and answers, and suggests strategies for teaching general death education as well as strategies for responding to a current death or loss. The resource concludes with print and internet sources for adults and children. Helping Children Live with Death and Loss also aids adults and children in improving their communication and coping skills, which are critical for managing loss and preparing for a healthier future.
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AIDS and the New Orphans: Coping with Death » Read Now
by Barbara O. Dane, Carol Levine. 158 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

By the year 2000, as many as 125,000 children under the age of 18 in the U.S. will have been orphaned by AIDS. Social services in major cities such as New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Washington will be further overwhelmed by these new clients and their unique problems. In this book, experts on...
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By the year 2000, as many as 125,000 children under the age of 18 in the U.S. will have been orphaned by AIDS. Social services in major cities such as New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Washington will be further overwhelmed by these new clients and their unique problems. In this book, experts on bereavement, AIDS, and children draw together and analyze research and practice models that may be vital to individual and public policy solutions. An invaluable examination of a problem of growing concern, this book will interest social, medical, and mental health professionals, policy analysts, and general readers.
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Sibling Loss » Read Now
by Joanna H. Fanos. 182 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

This is a superb book. It is based on extensive interviews, careful and complete mastery of existing literature, and the research of others. It is a significant contribution to our understanding of mourning, childhood and adolescent psychology, and of specific diseases, particularly cystic fibrosis.
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Children's Psychological Distress Following the Death of a Parent, in Journal of Youth and Adolescence » Read Now
by Victoria H. Raveis, Karolynn Siegel, Daniel Karus. 16 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...exacerbating the effect of parental death in children. Much of this work, however...Psychosocial functioning in children after the death of a parent. Am. J. Psychiatry...of...
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Children's Death Concepts: Relationship to Cognitive Functioning, Age, Experience with Death, Fear of Death, and Hopelessness, in Journal of Clinical Child Psychology » Read Now
by C. Randy Cotton, Lillian M. Range. 5 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...Childrens Death Concepts: Relationship to Cognitive...Further knowledge of the development of childrens death concepts may be useful in understanding...the development of...
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Adolescents' Perceptions and Experiences of Death and Grieving, in Adolescence » Read Now
by Suzanne M. Morin, Lesley A. Welsh. 11 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...aware of the concept of death than are middle-class children. Other researchers indicate...an important factor in childrens concept of death. In the present study...Factors...
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Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Chap. 8 "Children and Death") » Read Now
by Lewis R. Aiken. 398 pgs.

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This book is a brief but comprehensive survey of research, writings, and professional practices concerned with death and dying. It is interdisciplinary and eclectic--medical, psychological, religious, philosophical, artistic, demographics, bereavement, and widowhood are all considered--but with an...
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This book is a brief but comprehensive survey of research, writings, and professional practices concerned with death and dying. It is interdisciplinary and eclectic--medical, psychological, religious, philosophical, artistic, demographics, bereavement, and widowhood are all considered--but with an emphasis on psychological aspects. A variety of viewpoints and research findings on topics subsumed under "thanatology" receive thorough consideration. Questions, activities, and projects at the end of each chapter enhance reflection and personalize the material. This fourth edition features material on: * moral issues and court cases concerned with abortion and euthanasia; * the widespread problem of AIDS and other deadly diseases; * the tragedies occasioned by epidemics, starvation, and war; and * the resumption of capital punishment in many states. The book's enhanced multicultural tone reflects the increased economic, social, and physical interdependency among the nations of the world. Topics receiving increased attention in the fourth edition are: terror management; attitudes and practices concerning death; cross-cultural concepts of afterlife; gallows humor, out-of-body experiences; spiritualism; mass suicide; pet and romantic death; euthanasia; right to die; postbereavement depression; firearm deaths in children; children's understanding of death; child, adolescent, adult, and physician-assisted suicide; religious customs and death; confronting death; legal issues in death, dying and bereavement; death education; death music; creativity and death; longevity; broken heart phenomenon; beliefs in life after death; new definitions of death; children's acceptance of a parent's death; terminal illness; and the politics of death and dying.
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Unexpected Childhood Death: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Surviving Siblings and Parents, in Journal of Clinical Child Psychology » Read Now
by Debra R. Applebaum, G. Leonard Burns. 7 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...symptoms than parents of children who suffered accidental death. Higher levels of...1985 ) found that children who witnessed the death, rape, or suicide...due to accidental...
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Death in the Victorian Family (Chap. 6 "'That Little Company of Angels': The Tragedies of Children's Deaths") » Read Now
by Pat Jalland. 464 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This engrossing book explores family experiences of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830 and 1920. So many Victorian letters, diaries, and death memorials reveal a deep preoccupation with death which is both fascinating and enlightening. Pat Jalland has examined the...
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This engrossing book explores family experiences of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830 and 1920. So many Victorian letters, diaries, and death memorials reveal a deep preoccupation with death which is both fascinating and enlightening. Pat Jalland has examined the correspondence, diaries, and death memorials of fifty-five families to show us deathbed scenes of the time, good and bad deaths, the roles of medicine and religion, children's deaths, funerals and cremations, widowhood, and mourning rituals.
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Death of a Parent: Transition to a New Adult Identity » Read Now
by Debra Umberson. 255 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

In the midst of the busiest years of our lives and careers, just as many of us are beginning to confront our own aging, we are likely to lose a parent--and as commonplace, even expected, as any such event may be, the reperscussions can be dramatic. This book sets out in clear and comprehensive terms...
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In the midst of the busiest years of our lives and careers, just as many of us are beginning to confront our own aging, we are likely to lose a parent--and as commonplace, even expected, as any such event may be, the reperscussions can be dramatic. This book sets out in clear and comprehensive terms what the death of a parent means to most adults--how it in fact functions as a turning point in our emotional, social, and personal lives. Drawing on her own groundbreaking research, in-depth interviews, and data collected nationwide, Debra Umberson explores the social and psychological factors that determine how this important loss will affect us--as a personal crisis or an opportunity for healthy change. Her book shows how adults, far from the "finished" beings we are often assumed to be, can be profoundly transformed by the death of a parent--in beliefs, behavior, goals, sense of self--transformed in ways that will continue to affect us, for better or worse, for the rest of our lives. Debra Umberson is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the only scholar to have published on the topic of parental death in adulthood using national data, and her resume includes 36 published articles and chapters in leading academic journals and books on family and health topics. Dr. Umberson has received many awards. She won an award for her research for Death of a Parent from FIRST Award from the National Institute on Aging. Umberson's newest research, which is also sponsored by the National Institute of Aging, focuses on how marital quality changes over the life course. Umberson is currently serving as an elected officer of both the Mental Health Section and the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (the national professional association of sociologists in the United States). She has served as deputy editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and associate editor of the Journal of Family Issues. She is currently associate editor of Journal of Marriage and the Family.
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Helping Bereaved Children: A Handbook for Practitioners » Read Now
by Nancy Boyd Webb. 408 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Helping Children Cope with the Death of a Parent: A Guide for the First Year » Read Now
by Paddy Greenwall Lewis, Jessica G. Lippman. 168 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library