David W. Adams

This three-volume set is designed for the professional working with bereaved children and teenagers, specifically educators and medical professionals. Each volume has a different theme.
Volume one focuses upon the issue of death as a topic for discussion with children and adolescents. It includes chapters on: Gender Differences in Children's Understanding of Death; Perceptions of Death Through the Eyes of Children and Adolescents; Appetite for Destruction: Children and Violent Death in Popular Culture; AIDS and Our Children; Do Children Belong at Funerals?
Volume two: In Part A topics focus on different forms of therapy, including: art; music; play; story and active imagination; humour and laughter; pets and camps. Topics discussed in Part B include: palliative care; the impact of the hospital system; lessons on living; imagery; truth-telling; spirituality; developing a children's hospice.
Topics discussed in volume three include: anticipatory grief; the effects of sibling death; the impact of parental death; AIDS; the aftermath of suicide; domestic violence; the death of a classmate; group intervention; adolescent grief support groups.… (altro)