Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss
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Living with Grief: Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss, the book (ISBN 9781893349179), focuses on types of loss adolescents may face and ways to assist. Some of the foremost experts in the field share their insights in this 24-chapter volume.
The 384-page book is written by academicians and clinicians, with sidebar pieces from adolescents. Chapters examine the variety of losses adolescents encounter and offer ways to support both grieving adolescents and adolescents facing their own life-threatening illness. Subjects addressed include coping with a parental death; sibling death; traumatic loss and homicide; grieving and social media; and support groups and camps.
This book is a valuable resource for clinicians, teachers, and parents of grieving adolescents. Doka, K.J. and Tucci, A. S. (Eds) (2014) Washington, DC, Hospice Foundation of America. This book is indexed.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Adolescent Encounters with Death: A Historical and Sociological Overview
Kenneth J. Doka
PART I: ADOLESCENCE AND LOSS
Living with Life-Threatening Illness: An Adolescent Perspective
Kenneth J. Doka
Rights of Passage: Ethical Aspects of Adolescent End-of-Life Care
Bruce Jennings
Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Developmental Perspective
David E. Balk
Adolescents Coping with Parental Death
William Worden
Voices: When Dad Died
Evan Brohan
When a Sibling Dies
Nancy S. Hogan
Voices: Giving Back
Alivia Seay
Perinatal Loss in Adolescence: A Double Transition
Carlos Torres, Nicole Alston, and Robert A. Neimeyer
Accidents and Traumatic Loss: The Adolescent Experience
Illene Noppe Cupit and Karissa J. Meyer
Adolescent Suicide
Lillian Range
Voices: Zach’s Suicide
Dylan Rieger
Adolescents and Homicide
Tashel C. Bordere
Adolescent Grief: The Death of a U. S. Service Member
Heather R. Campagna, Tina Saari, and Jill Harrington-LaMorie
PART II: SUPPORTING GRIEVING ADOLESCENTS
Adolescent Use of Technology and Social Media to Cope with Grief
Carla Sofka
Death Education and Adolescents
Robert G. Stevenson
Supporting the Grieving College Student
Donna M. Burns
Bibliotherapy With Adolescents
Charles A. Corr
Voices: Holding Back
Justin Lewis
Support Groups for Adolescents
Donna L. Schuurman
The Magic of Grief Camps: The Impact on Teens
Jennifer Kaplan Schreiber and Cathy Spear
Counseling Adolescents
David A. Crenshaw
Voices: What Helped and Didn’t Help My Grieving
Kora Delashmutt
Expressive Therapies to Help Adolescents Cope with Loss
Nancy Boyd Webb
Grief, Adolescence, and the Autism Spectrum
Karla Helbert
RESOURCES
INDEX
