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Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies

By: J. William Worden  

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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, shedding new light 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.
This book will be of interest to child psychologists and psychiatrists; counselors, social workers and other helping professionals who work with grieving families; students and researchers in child and family psychology and bereavement. It serves as a text in advanced courses on bereavement, family and child therapy, and developmental psychopathology.

Publisher: The Guilford Press

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Great research - This is a fantastic book if you are interested in a fact based approach. If what you need right now is sympathy and emotion, this really isn't the place to look, but for facts, truth and statistics, it doesn't get any better. With a myriad of books that approach with a sullen, soft tone, this book is straight forward and honest. As a childhood grief survivor I found this approach to be cathartic and emotionally transformative. It takes a solid, unbiased look at what works and what research says. As a child, I heard a strong message that children don't grieve and with many caregivers still ignoring the grief of children, this book is a great way to address many damaging misconceptions in non-judgmental way.
This book is a must for anyone who works with children who are dealing with grief.


Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Suicide Survivors will find this book helpful - Worden's book is an outstanding resource for professionals helping grieving children. I would recommend it to those who work with child suicide survivors. Children and Grief will provide insight regarding the child's tasks of grief.

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Children and Grief - Good resource on grief. Well thought out and presented.
I also use the grief video, After the Tears, A Gentle Guide to Help Children Understand Death.

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Professional treasure chest here - If you're looking for a book that brings together the best in scholarly research with a practical usefulness, look no further. Children and Grief is a veritable treasure chest. Worden and his colleagues did a masterful job of using data derived not only from parents (where many studies gather their data) but also through structured interviews with the children themselves.

Perhaps the section of the volume of most compelling use to professionals is the chapter in which Worden summarizes what he calls "mediators of the child's bereavement experience." Here, in useful fashion, the author draws out elements of the death itself, its cause, the relationship between the child, deceased parent, and surviving caregivers, and a host of other factors that influence how a bereaved child copes.

Dr. Worden wrote one of the landmark textbooks on grief counseling when he wrote Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy two decades ago. The present volume is destined to be of as much practical help as the first one was. It's another book that has remained at arm's length from my desk since it was first published three years ago.

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