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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820446403321

Titolo

Healing after parent loss in childhood and adolescence : therapeutic interventions and theoretical considerations / / edited by Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin, and Richard Ruth ; Nancy McWilliams, foreword

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4422-3176-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Disciplina

155.9/37083

Soggetti

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

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.