Healing after parent loss in childhood and adolescence : therapeutic interventions and theoretical considerations /

Healing after parent loss in childhood and adolescence : therapeutic interventions and theoretical considerations / edited by Phyllis Cohen, PhD, K. Mark Sossin, PhD and Richard Ruth, PhD. - Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (x, 341 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword; Part I: Overview; 1 Loss of a Parent during Childhood and Adolescence; Part II: Therapy in the Office with Children and Their Caregivers; 2 "Do You Know Anyone Who is Dead?"; 3 Walking in Their Shoes; 4 "My Daddy Is a Star in the Sky"; Part III: Therapy in the Office with Adolescents; 5 A Terrible Thing Happened on the Way to Becoming a Girl; 6 Mourning Childhood Loss in Adolescence; 7 Revisiting, Repairing, and Restoring; 8 All You Need Is Love; Part IV: Therapy in the Office with Emerging and Older Adults after Earlier Loss of a Parent. 9 Death, Mourning, and a Daughter's Diary10 Mourning a Ghost; Part V: Innovative Applications in Groups, Consultations, and Court Assessments; 11 When the Context Shifts; 12 Maintaining Hope in the Face of Despair; 13 Take Me to the Moon and Wait; 14 Father Quest and Linking Objects; 15 Death of a Father on September 11, 2001; Index; About the Editors and Contributors.

Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence develops new insights on the experiences of children and adolescents who have lost a parent. Vivid, case-based chapters describe a variety of ways clinicians can effectively help children and adolescents progress towards the amelioration of long lasting effects of agonizing, untimely losses.



9781442231764

2021676847


Grief in children--Treatment.
Grief in adolescence--Treatment.
Loss (Psychology) in children.
Loss (Psychology) in adolescence.
Children--Counseling of.
Teenagers--Counseling of.
Parents--Death--Psychological aspects.
Children and death.


Electronic Books.

BF723 / .H435 2014