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Author Baxter, Grant

Title Death and the Adolescent : a Resource Handbook for Bereavement Support Groups in Schools
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (143 pages)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 An Overview -- Grieving, Mourning, Bereavement -- Grief Reactions -- Normal, Reactive Grief -- Griefwork -- Sudden Death -- Suicide -- The Suicidal Adolescent -- The Coroner's Office -- When Bodies Cannot Be Recovered -- Funeral Services -- Thoughts on Adolescent Development -- 2 Forming a Group -- Group Support/Grief Counselling -- The Four Stages of Group Dynamics -- The Three Basic Groups -- Getting a Group Started -- The Ten Sessions -- Typical Student Responses -- Sample Logs -- Sample Forms -- 3 Common Problems -- Health -- Hallucinations/Imagery -- Suicide -- Difficulties at Home -- Visiting Hospital -- Relocation -- Post-Secondary Education -- Student Check List -- 4 Case Studies: Grieving Special Losses -- Survival Myth or Hero Worship Syndrome -- Inhibited Grief -- States of Family Renewal/Blended Families -- Suicide: Anger, Sense of Abandonment, Acceptance -- Taking on Disease/Illness -- Unexplained or Sudden Death -- Humour -- Hallucinations, Dreams, Flashbacks -- Delayed Grief -- Grieving Timetables -- Death of Siblings -- Abortion -- 5 Ways Schools and Parents Can Assist -- How Teachers Can Help -- How Parents Can Help -- Effective Methods of Coping -- When a Parent or Sibling Is Terminally Ill -- When a Teacher Dies -- When a Student Dies -- When There Is Life-Threatening Illness -- The Principal's Letter -- The School Yearbook -- Planning a Memorial Service -- The Service -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Religious Beliefs and Funeral Practices -- Appendix 2: Research with Bereaved Teenagers -- Appendix 3: Articles -- Appendix 4: Community Resources -- Selected Bibliography
Summary This manual provides information, guidelines, and suggestions for parents, teachers, and other caregivers in helping teenagers who have lost a parent, sibling or close friend through death
Notes Print version record
Subject Teenagers and death.
Grief in adolescence.
Bereavement in adolescence.
Teenagers -- Counseling of.
Bereavement in adolescence.
Grief in adolescence.
Teenagers and death.
Teenagers -- Counseling of.
Form Electronic book
Author Stuart, Wendy
ISBN 9781442673755
1442673753