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When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent » (REV)

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Authors: Rebecca Abrams
ISBN-13: 9780415200660, ISBN-10: 0415200660
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: May 1999
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: Rebecca Abrams

Book Synopsis

This new edition of When Parents Die will speak to bereaved children of all ages in a very accessible style. Rebecca Abrams draws on both her personal and professional understanding of parental loss to provide the reader with a compassionate and insightful exploration of the experience of losing a parent.

When Parents Die has already established itself as an indispensable aid both to the bereaved seeking some understanding of their loss and to the many professionals who work with them. This new edition takes into account new research and theories and considers in more depth:

*the continuing importance of the dead parent in ones life
*the critical role played by the surviving parent
*the experiences of younger children
*the impact of divorce and adoption.

Retaining its clear, direct and sympathetic style, this text will continue to appeal to the bereaved, their friends and family, counsellors, social workers, doctors, nurses and teachers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword to second edition
Introduction
1My story1
2First days, last rites15
3Different deaths, different griefs36
4Mourning time: the first year61
5Mourning time: the second year and after86
6Changes and losses: the private kind101
7Changes and losses: the public kind135
8Old grief in new guises146
9Pathways to the future168
10Last words181
Suggested reading184
Useful organizations189
Index193

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