Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781572307469)

Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a richly textured portrait of the mourning process in children. The volume presents major findings from the Harvard Child Bereavement Study and places them in the context of previous research, providing insights on both the wide range of normal variation in children's experience of grief and the factors that put bereaved children at risk. The book also compares parentally bereaved children with those who have suffered loss of a sibling to death, or of a parent through divorce, exploring similarities and differences in these experiences of loss. A concluding section explores the clinical implications of the findings and includes a review of intervention models and activities, as well as a screening instrument designed to help identify high-risk bereaved children.


Author: J. William Worden
ISBN-10: 1572307463
ISBN-13: 9781572307469
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2001
Pages: 225
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.69d