Understanding Children's Experiences of Parental Bereavement

Name: Understanding Children's Experiences of Parental Bereavement
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ISBN: 9781843100164

ISBN-10: 1843100169

ISBN-13: 9781843100164

Edition: 2001

Authors: John Holland

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This practical guide for teachers and parents explains how best to help and support a child whose parent or carer has died. It covers such topics as funerals and the significance of rituals, and the importance of a careful transition back to school.

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 8/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



List of tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Humberside studies and lceberg



Change and losses in the cultural context



The 'traditional' models of loss



Schema theory and the importance of language



Childhood bereavement and its effects



How schools help bereaved children



Children's understanding of and interest in death



The background to Iceberg



Introduction to the results



The first reactions to the death



The chapel of rest and the funeral



The return to school



The isolation of the Iceberg volunteers



The Iceberg volunteers' feelings over the two year period after the death of their parents



The medium and long-term effects of the death of their parents on the Iceberg volunteers



The age at which volunteers gained an idea of death



Different types of loss



The experience of death by the Iceberg volunteers



Conclusions to the research questions



Interview sheet: pupil



Interview sheet: parent


References


Index