Children and Grief : When a
Parent Dies
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.
Publication Date: December 2001
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