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Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a richly textured portrait of the mourning process in children. The volume presents major findings from the Child Bereavement Study and places them in the context of previous research, shedding new light on both the wide range of normal variation in children's experience of grief and the factors that put bereaved children at risk. The book also compares parentally bereaved children with those who have suffered loss of a sibling to death, or of a parent through divorce, exploring similarities and differences in these experiences of loss. A concluding section explores the clinical implications of the findings and includes a review of intervention models and activities, as well as a screening instrument designed to help identify high-risk bereaved children.

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• Introduction
• Part I Children and their Families in Mourning
• The Mourning Process for Children
• When a Parent Dies
• How Life Changes
• How the Child Responds
• Mediators of the Child's Bereavement Experience
• Children at Risk
• Part II Comparative Losses
• When a Sibling Dies
• The Loss of a Parent by Divorce
• Part III How We Can Help Bereaved Children
• Counseling and Intervention Issues
• Intervention Models and Activities
• Epilogue
• Appendix A Project Assessment Instruments
• Appendix B

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Exactly how do children cope with the death of a parent? Worden sheds light on this compelling question as he discusses the major findings of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study, which observed 125 children over a two-year period after the death of a parent. Part 1 examines the tasks of mourning, a child's understanding of death, and important rituals. Children's continued relationships with deceased parents as well as initial, one-year, and two-year changes in a child's life after the parental death are explored. Worden differentiates between risk predictors of emotional/behavioral difficulties and normal grieving of children. Part 2 discusses comparative losses to children, such as the death of a sibling or loss of a parent through divorce. Worden compare similarities as well as important differences between these losses. Part 3 identifies "red-flag" behaviors indicating the need for professional interventions, as well as common needs recognized in bereaved children. Advantages and disadvantages of various intervention models are cited. Suggested activities such as games, art, writing, and memory books are discussed. In very touching epilogue, bereaved children from the study give each other "counsel." Appendixes include the project assessment and screening instruments as well as topical suggested readings. An excellent book that will enlighten. General readers; undergraduates through professionals. M. A. Gillis; Elmira College

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Bio updated 9/01 for paperback release



J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP, holds academic appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology in California. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study, based at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His clinical practice is in Newport Beach, California.