Social Science : Death & Dying

'What is exceptional about this book is that it offers the accounts of children and young people themselves about the loss of parents. This is a book which includes deaths due to natural causes, accidents, suicide and murder. It tells important truths in the clear direct voices of those children and young people themselves, aged from one upwards. It is a brave book, full of complexity that, like the children and young people themselves, doesn't duck the painful and difficult issues it explores. It is a book helpfully to be read by adults and children alike. Yet again it confirms that children know and understand much more than adults tend to give them credit for and all the more for that, need support, understanding and being listening to. …Should be on every social care book shelf. I am grateful that I have come across [it]. '. - Peter Beresford, Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University. Praise for the Swedish Edition:. 'Anyone who loses a sibling or a parent should automatically be given this book. That's how good it is.'. - Länstidningen Södertälje (Swedish daily paper). 'A book that helps make grief easier to bear.'. - Länstidningen Östersund (Swedish daily paper). 'A series of powerful stories has sprung up out of the depths of grief and loss.'. - Helsingborgs dagblad (Swedish daily paper). 'The stories are about their vivid, intimate, day-to-day thoughts, feelings and experiences, about grief, loss and the events connected with a death, and about things one has shared with the person who has died and other memories. This book shows how important it is to be allowed to say farewell to a loved one and to be able to talk about one's loss and people's reactions to it. These children and teenagers tell us how they want and need people around them to react. The book works very well as a form of support and as the starting-point for talking to other young people who have also lo more...

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Focusing on fictional child and adolescent characters experiencing grief, this book uses classic tales and the Harry Potter books to help grieving children and adolescents. It includes a number of activities, discussion questions, and games that could be used with grieving children and adolescents, based on the fictional characters. more...

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Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world—so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all. Now she leads us on a compelling journey into the cult and culture behind the obituary page and the unusual lives we don't quite appreciate until they're gone. more...

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It offers practical guidance on how to improve care and reduce risk for suicidal patients. Inpatient versus outpatient treatments, alternative programs such as cognitive-behavioral strategies, adolescent suicide, suicide and substance abuse, and a step-by-step process for counseling everyone affected are all detailed with clarity and sensitivity in this book. more...

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In the winter of 1997, biologist and critically acclaimed science writer Tyler Volk began suffering from mysterious physical ailments that would bring him face to face with his own mortality. This experience led him to explore what death means to us - and to discover that our mortality is, paradoxically, extraordinarily life affirming. more...

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