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In this sympathetic book, Tamar Granot explains the immediate and long-term effects of loss on children and adolescents. She describes how loss is experienced at different ages, explaining the significant consequences it can have on the development of personality. Without You provides valuable guidance for parents and carers of bereaved children.

Title Without you [electronic resource] : children and young people growing up with loss and its effects / Tamar Granot.
Edition 1st American pbk. ed.
Publisher London
Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Creation Date 2005
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Cover
Without You: Children and Young People Growing Up with Loss and its Effects
Contents
Introduction
What this book is about
Why this bookwas written
Being aware of your own experiences that you bring to the book as a reader
1 The Bereavement of Children
Children's perception of loss
Influence of the socio-cultural environment on children's understanding of death and loss
Stages of grieving
How children grieve
2 Reactions to Loss According to the Child's Developmental Stage
Level of emotional and cognitive development
Separation, attachment, and loss
Responses to loss by age groupEarly childhood (birth to 3 years)
The Oedipal stage (age 5 to 7)
The latency period (age 7 to 11)
Adolescence (age 12 to 18)
Early adulthood (age 18 to 30)
Summary: The intrapsychic experience of loss and its effects on personality development and pathology
3 Additional Variables Affecting the Child's Response
Circumstances of loss
Period of uncertainty
Foreseeable death as compared to sudden death
Suicide
Murder
Divorce
Rejection and abandonment
Previous and cumulative losses
Loss of two parents
Gender of the absent parent and the child
The relationship prior to the lossInfluence of cultural and socio-economic factors
4 The Remaining Parent and the Family System
How the parent copes with the loss
Personality of the parent and how it affects coping: implications for the child
Coping with loss within the family
Aspects of the family system that influence coping with loss
Bereaved siblings
New beginnings and other changes in life
5 A Few More Things That One Should Know
Dos
Don'ts
A few myths about children
How to respond: some practical suggestions
Good signs
Warning signs
Psychological treatment
GLOSSARY
RECOMMENDED READINGINDEX
Extent 1 online resource (242 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010700495505171
MARC RECORDS

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