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In this book Dorothy Judd, a child psychotherapist who has worked with ill, disabled and dying children and adolescents for many years, places her clinical experience in the context of a full understanding of death, the moral and ethical issues raised by some of the treatments for life-threatening illness.
List of contents
Foreword , Foreword to the third edition , Preface to the first edition , Preface to the second edition , Preface to the third edition , Introduction to the third edition: developments since 1995 , Note on conventions , Framework , The death of a child , Children's attitudes to death , The dying child's awareness of death , Should we talk to children about death? , The stages of emotional reactions to life-threatening illness , Support available , Robert, aged 7-and-a-half , Diary of my work with Robert over 3 months , Postscript , Brief retrospective analysis , Survival or death , Prolonging dying? , Those who survive , After the death of a child , Epilogue , Analysis of Robert's drawings , Extracts from the Nuremberg Code (1947) , Note on Isabel Menzies Lyth's 'The functioning of social systems as a defence against anxiety' (1959) , Useful addresses
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Dorothy Judd
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In this book Dorothy Judd, a child psychotherapist who has worked with ill, disabled and dying children and adolescents for many years, places her clinical experience in the context of a full understanding of death, the moral and ethical issues raised by some of the treatments for life-threatening illness.
