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