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Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence develops new insights on the experiences of children and adolescents who have lost a parent. Vivid, case-based chapters describe a variety of ways clinicians can effectively help children and adolescents progress towards the amelioration of long lasting effects of agonizing, untimely losses.
List of contents
Foreword
Nancy McWilliams
Part I: Overview
1: Loss of a Parent During Childhood and Adolescence: A Prismatic Look at the Literature
K. Mark Sossin, Yelena Bromberg, & Diana Haddad
Part II: Therapy in the Office with Children and Their Caregivers
2: "Do You Know Anyone Who is Dead?" A Four Year Old Boy Comes to Understand the Unexpected Loss of His Father in the Context of Culture
Luz Towns-Miranda
3. Walking in Their Shoes: Therapeutic Journeys with Young Girls who Lost Mothers
JoAnn Ponder
4: "My Daddy is a Star in the Sky": Understanding and Treating Traumatic Grief in Early Childhood
Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Alicia F. Lieberman, & Joy D. Osofsky
Part III: Therapy in the Office with Adolescents
5: A Terrible Thing Happened on the Way to Becoming a Girl: Transgender Trauma, Parental Loss, and Recovery
Diane Ehrensaft
6: Mourning Childhood Loss in Adolescence: An Indirect Approach to Feelings
Daniel Gensler
7: Revisiting, Repairing and Restoring: The Developmental Journey of a Bereaved Ado
About the author
Phyllis Cohen, PhD, is the founder and director of the New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence. She is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University.
K. Mark Sossin, PhD, is professor of psychology and the associate chair of the Department of Psychology at Pace University. He is also the director of the Pace Parent-Infant/Toddler Research Nursery.
Richard Ruth, PhD, is associate professor of clinical psychology, director of clinical training, and chair of the child/adolescent track at the George Washington University PsyD program.
Summary
Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence develops new insights on the experiences of children and adolescents who have lost a parent. Vivid, case-based chapters describe a variety of ways clinicians can effectively help children and adolescents progress towards the amelioration of long lasting effects of agonizing, untimely losses.
