Authors: Earl A. Grollman
ISBN-13: 9780807023075, ISBN-10: 0807023078
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Date Published: August 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Rabbi Earl A. Grollman is an internationally recognized bereavement counselor who has been named Hero of the Heartland and given the Distinguished Human Service Award from Yeshiva University, among countless other awards. He is author of the best-selling Living When a Loved One Has Died (Beacon / 2719-7 / $10.00 pb), among many other books, and articles about him and his work have appeared in USA Today, Harper's, Reader's Digest, Ann Landers, People, and in virtually every major American daily. He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.
A comprehensive guide to help parents and children of all ages cope with the emotional, religious, social, and physical aspects of a loved one's death. Topics range from explaining how adolescents grieve to outlining concrete methods that help children cope.
Almost 30 years ago, Grollman wrote a groundbreaking work for children on death, Explaining Death to Children (LJ 11/1/67). Since then, Americans have made strides toward viewing death as a natural part of life, not an occasion to be denied or ignored, and for the most part this attitude is being taught to children. Grollman now brings together articles from 14 writers (teachers, medical professionals, clergy, and counselors) to address diverse subtopics, such as terminal illness, death education in schools, responses among different faiths and ethnic groups, and the use of film and drama to teach about death. His selections stress the importance of grief and attendance at a funeral and burial or marking closure in some definite way. The value here is in recognizing wide, diverse responses to death while supporting the idea that since death is part of life, children need to be prepared. For most collections.-Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, Pa.
Acknowledgments | ||
Preface | ||
Pt. 1 | Death, Development, and Relationships | 1 |
1 | Explaining Death to Young Children: Some Questions and Answers | 3 |
2 | Entering into Adolescent Understandings of Death | 21 |
3 | Friends, Teachers, Movie Stars: The Disenfranchised Grief of Children | 37 |
4 | Talking to Children about the Terminal Illness of a Loved One | 47 |
5 | Toward Siblings' Understanding and Perspectives of Death | 61 |
Pt. 2 | Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Perspectives on Death and Children | 75 |
6 | Children and Death: Diversity in Universality | 77 |
7 | Behind Smiles and Laughter: African-American Children's Issues about Bereavement | 93 |
8 | Protestant Perspectives on Grief and Children | 113 |
9 | Life, Death, and the Catholic Child | 129 |
10 | Explaining Death to Children from Jewish Perspectives | 141 |
11 | A Philosopher Looks at Children and Death | 159 |
Pt. 3 | Treatments and Therapies That Can Help Children Cope with Death | 169 |
12 | Care of the Dying Child | 171 |
13 | "I Thought about Death All the Time...": Students, Teachers, and the Understanding of Death | 181 |
14 | Special Needs of Bereaved Children: Effective Tools for Helping | 195 |
15 | Using Story, Film, and Drama to Help Children Cope with Death | 213 |
Index | 231 |