Foreword
Nancy McWilliams
Part I: Overview
1: Loss of a Parent During Childhood and Adolescence: A Prismatic
Look at the Literature
K. Mark Sossin, Yelena Bromberg, & Diana Haddad
Part II: Therapy in the Office with Children and Their
Caregivers
2: “Do You Know Anyone Who is Dead?” A Four Year Old Boy Comes to
Understand the Unexpected Loss of His Father in the Context of
Culture
Luz Towns-Miranda
3. Walking in Their Shoes: Therapeutic Journeys with Young Girls
who Lost Mothers
JoAnn Ponder
4: “My Daddy is a Star in the Sky”: Understanding and Treating
Traumatic Grief in Early Childhood
Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Alicia F. Lieberman, & Joy D. Osofsky
Part III: Therapy in the Office with Adolescents
5: A Terrible Thing Happened on the Way to Becoming a Girl:
Transgender Trauma, Parental Loss, and Recovery
Diane Ehrensaft
6: Mourning Childhood Loss in Adolescence: An Indirect Approach to
Feelings
Daniel Gensler
7: Revisiting, Repairing and Restoring: The Developmental Journey
of a Bereaved Adolescent
Norka T. Malberg
Part IV: Therapy in the Office with Emerging and Older Adults after
Earlier Loss of a Parent
8: All You Need is Love: Primary Paternal Preoccupation
Seth Aronson
9. Death and a Daughter’s Diary
Billie Ann Pivnick
10. Mourning a Ghost: A Challenge for Holocaust Child Survivors
Eva Fogelman
Part V: Innovative Applications in Groups, Consultations and Court
Assessments
11. When the Context Shifts: A Child Therapist Helping Children in
Forensic Systems Who Have Lost a Parent
Richard Ruth
12. Maintaining Hope in the Face of Despair: The
Transference-Countertransference Matrix in Treating Adolescents
Coping with Traumatic Parental Losses
Etty Cohen
13. Take Me to the Moon and Wait: A Model for Accompanying Families
with Young Children Through Parental Illness, Death and
Mourning
Ariane Schwab Hug and Daniel S. Schechter
14. Father Quest and Linking Objects: A Story of the
American World War II Orphans Network (AWON)
and Palestinian Orphans
Vamik D. Volkan
15. Death of a Father on September 11, 2001:
Video-Informed Consultations
K. Mark Sossin, Phyllis Cohen, & Beatrice Beebe
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Phyllis Cohen, PhD, is the founder and director of the New York
Institute for Psychotherapy Training in Infancy, Childhood, and
Adolescence. She is also an adjunct assistant professor in the
Department of Applied Psychology at New York University.
K. Mark Sossin, PhD, is professor of psychology and the associate
chair of the Department of Psychology at Pace University. He is
also the director of the Pace Parent-Infant/Toddler Research
Nursery.
Richard Ruth, PhD, is associate professor of clinical psychology,
director of clinical training, and chair of the child/adolescent
track at the George Washington University PsyD program.
Healing After Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence provides a
welcome addition to the therapeutic literature in an area that
affects many children, adolescents, and even adults but that does
not always get as much attention as it deserves.
*Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent
Psychiatry*
This thoughtful and compassionate book provides invaluable insights
into the therapeutic process for facilitating healing for young
people who lose a parent. Guided by a psychodynamic perspective,
the book does a wonderful job of integrating theory and clinical
material. The cases are presented in a powerful and poignant
fashion and bring to life the complex phenomenology of this
traumatic loss as well as strategies for enabling diverse children
and adolescents to progress developmentally in an adaptive way
after their parent dies.
*Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, Emory University*
This is one of those rare books that clinicians will return to many
times over for insight, wisdom, and comfort in their work with
grieving children, adolescents, and adults. The individual
contributions are noteworthy for the depth of exploration of the
complexities of mourning the death of a parent, whether anticipated
or unexpected. The breadth of the clinical material and the
contributors’ thoughtful approaches to this difficult work
strikingly demonstrate that, in this exemplary case, the whole is
truly greater than the sum of its impressive parts.
*Toni V. Heineman, PhD, A Home Within*
The editors have brought together a moving collection of clinically
deep and sensitive papers about loss and mourning in childhood and
adolescence. So often, even as children struggle with their
own confusion, despair, and sadness, they also show the adults
around them how to mourn if only we would stop and listen. These
remarkable essays, each beautifully giving voice to children’s
stories in the face of loss, calls all of us to pause and listen,
look within ourselves, and embrace those memories and stories our
children create.
*Linda C. Mayes, MD, Yale Child Study Center*
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