Children and Grief
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Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Children and Their Families in Mourning
1. The Mourning Process for Children
2. When a Parent Dies
3. How Life Changes
4. How the Child Responds
5. Mediators of the Child's Bereavement Experience
6. Children at Risk
II. Comparative Losses
7. When a Sibling Dies
8. The Loss of a Parent by Divorce
III. How We Can Help Bereaved Children
9. Counseling and Intervention Issues
10. Intervention Models and Activities
Epilogue
Appendices: A. Project Assessment Instruments.
B. Screening Instrument and Scoring Instructions.

About the Author

Bio updated 9/01 for paperback release

J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP, holds academic appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology in California. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study, based at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His clinical practice is in Newport Beach, California.

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'Clinicians and researchers alike will return to this book often for its clear and perceptive treatment of the central issues in the lives of bereaved children and their families.' - The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 'Clear, comprehensive, and extremely useful... A scientifically sound and readable text that will be useful to developmental psychologists, family therapists, family physicians, and parents.' - Family Medicine 'Well worth reading by health care professionals and other who care about wounded children... Well-written, well-organized, useful, and comprehensive...Presents practical suggestions about how to identify children at high risk for maladaptation to grief, and offers easily understood approaches that might be taken by adults who are concerned about bereaved children.' - The Journal of Family Practice 'This book will satisfy readers from many differing levels of expertise. It gives a reliable look at the landscape of mourning, in which the reader will find many helpful signposts.' - Canadian Child Psychiatry Review

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