Death and the adolescent : a resource handbook for bereavement support groups in schools / / Grant Baxter and Wendy Stuart

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455845203321
• Autore: Baxter Grant
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999; ©1999
• ISBN: 1-282-00829-3; 9786612008290; 1-4426-7375-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (143 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.9370835
• Soggetti: Teenagers and death; Grief in adolescence; Bereavement in adolescence; Teenagers - Counseling of; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. An Overview -- 2. Forming a Group -- 3. Common Problems -- 4. Case Studies: Grieving Special Losses -- 5. Ways Schools and Parents Can Assist -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Religious Beliefs and Funeral Practices -- Appendix 2: Research with Bereaved Teenagers -- Appendix 3: Articles -- Appendix 4: Community Resources -- Selected Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: The death of a loved one can create special challenges for adolescents. This manual provides information, guidelines, and suggestions for parents, teachers, and other caregivers in helping teenagers who have lost a parent, sibling, or close friend through death.Drawing on their own extensive experience as bereavement counsellors, the authors explain in detail how to conduct a bereavement support group for adolescents. In addition they examine problems typically encountered by bereaved teens, and provide clinical case studies that show a range of grieving patterns. The book includes a description of the mourning ; and funeral rites practised by a variety of religious and ethnic groups, and concludes with a bibliography and a list of community resources.