A parent s guide to raising grieving children rebuilding your family after the death of a loved one 1st Edition by Phyllis Silverman, Madelyn Kelly 0195328841 9780195328844

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ISBN 10: 0195328841
ISBN 13: 9780195328844
Author: Phyllis R. Silverman, Madelyn Kelly

When children lose someone they love, they lose part of their very identity. Life, as they knew it, will never be quite the same. The world that once felt dependable and safe may suddenly seem a frightening, uncertain place, where nobody understands what they’re feeling. In this deeply sympathetic book, Phyllis R. Silverman and Madelyn Kelly offer wise guidance on virtually every aspect of childhood loss, from living with someone who’s dying to preparing the funeral; from explaining death to a two year old to managing the moods of a grieving teenager; from dealing with people who don’t understand to learning how and where to get help from friends, therapists, and bereavement groups; from developing a new sense of self to continuing a relationship with the person who died. Throughout, the authors advocate an open, honest approach, suggesting that our instinctive desire to “protect” children from the reality of death may be more harmful than helpful. “Children want you to acknowledge what is happening, to help them understand it,” the authors suggest. “In this way, they learn to trust their own ability to make sense out of what they see.” Drawing on groundbreaking research into what bereaved children are really experiencing, and quoting real conversations with parents and children who have walked that road, the book allows readers to see what others have learned from mourning and surviving the death of a loved one. In a culture where grief is so often invisible and misunderstood, the wisdom derived from such first-hand experience is invaluable. Filled with compassion and common sense, A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Loss of a Loved One offers readers a wealth of solace and sound advice, and even–where one might least expect it–a measure of hope.

A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children 1st Table of contents

1 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
2 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
3 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
4 SOMEONE I LOVE HAS DIED
The Finality of Death: The Door Is Closed
How Children React
Staggering Through
Making Decisions
Rites and Rituals
5 AFTER A PARENT’S DEATH: A WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
Losing Your Past, Present, and Future
What Your Children Have Lost
Different Ways of Showing Grief
Lives Reexamined
Redesigning the Role of Parent
Going Back to School
Feelings and What to Do with Them
Falling Apart, and Coming Together
Be Patient with Yourself and with Your Children
6 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
Friends and Bullies
Collapse of Their World: A Lost Way of Life
The Lost World
A New Outlook, for You and Your Children
7 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
8 HELP OF ALL KINDS
The Early Period after the Death
Finding Help at School
Help with Financial and Legal Issues
Time 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
9 CONTINUING BONDS
What Happens after Death: Faith, Dreams, Visions, and Visits
Connections over Time
10 LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD
The New World
Dating and Remarriage
The Child’s Path
INDEX

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