A parent's guide to raising grieving children : rebuilding your family after the death of a loved one

Silverman, Phyllis R. (Author). Kelly, Madelyn. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780195328844 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xi, 256 p ; cm.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Road map for a long journey -- You don't have to do this alone -- Why we wrote this book -- How to read this book -- Some words of advice -- What death means to children -- Age matters -- Preschool age children : a limited concept of death -- Elementary school age children : a growing understanding of death -- The teenage years : a fuller comprehension -- Someone I love is dying -- Getting bad news -- How to get help -- My spouse is dying : anticipating living as a single parent -- My child is dying : anticipating an altered family -- Someone I love has died -- The finality of death : the door is closed -- How children react -- Staggering through -- Making decisions -- Rites and rituals -- After a parent's death : a world upside down -- Losing your past, present and future -- What you children have lost -- Different ways of showing grief -- Lives reexamined -- Redesigning the role of parent -- Going back to school -- Felings and what to do with them -- Falling apart, and coming together -- Be patient with yourself and with your children -- After a child's death : a family disrupted -- The parent's view : coping with your own loss -- Two parents,and at least two ways of grieving -- Other people do not always help -- Parenting your other children -- The child's view : what it means to lose a sibling -- How children respond -- Friends and bullies -- Collapse of their world : a lost way of life -- The lost world -- A new outlook, for you and your children -- After a friend's death: invisible mourners -- Death and funerals -- Trying to make sense of it all -- Constructing a relationship with the person who died -- Help of all kinds -- The early period after the death -- Finding help at school -- Help with financial and legal issues -- Tme moves forward, but help is still needed -- Individual counseling for children and adults -- Bereavement groups for children and adults -- Not all help is helpful -- A reordered universe -- Continuing bonds -- What happens after death : faith, dreams, visions, and visits -- Connections over time -- Looking back; looking ahead -- The new world -- Dating and remarriage -- The child's path.