What is included with this book?
Road Map For A Long Journey | p. 1 |
You Don't Have to Do This Alone | p. 2 |
Why We Wrote This Book | p. 4 |
How to Read This Book | p. 7 |
Some Words of Advice | p. 8 |
What Death Means to Children | p. 12 |
Age Matters | p. 13 |
Preschool-Age Children: A Limited Concept of Death | p. 17 |
Elementary School-Age Children: A Growing Understanding of Death | p. 21 |
The Teenage Years: A Fuller Comprehension | p. 28 |
Someone I Love Is Dying | p. 34 |
Getting Bad News | p. 35 |
How to Get Help | p. 43 |
My Spouse Is Dying: Anticipating Living as a Single Parent | p. 52 |
My Child Is Dying: Anticipating an Altered Family | p. 55 |
Someone I Love Has Died | p. 60 |
The Finality of Death: The Door Is Closed | p. 63 |
How Children React | p. 64 |
Staggering Through | p. 70 |
Making Decisions | p. 72 |
Rites and Rituals | p. 77 |
After A Parent's Death: A World Upside Down | p. 86 |
Losing Your Past, Present, and Future | p. 87 |
What Your Children Have Lost | p. 88 |
Different Ways of Showing Grief | p. 90 |
Lives Reexamined | p. 91 |
Redesigning the Role of Parent | p. 92 |
Going Back to School | p. 101 |
Feelings and What to Do with Them | p. 107 |
Falling Apart, and Coming Together | p. 114 |
Be Patient with Yourself and with Your Children | p. 121 |
After A Child's Death: A Family Disrupted | p. 123 |
The Parent's View: Coping with Your Own Loss | p. 126 |
Two Parents, and at Least Two Ways of Grieving | p. 130 |
Other People Do Not Always Help | p. 134 |
Parenting Your Other Children | p. 137 |
The Child's View: What It Means to Lose a Sibling | p. 140 |
Friends and Bullies | p. 143 |
Collapse of Their World: A Lost Way of Life | p. 146 |
The Lost World | p. 148 |
A New Outlook, for You and Your Children | p. 155 |
After A Friend's Death: Invisible Mourners | p. 158 |
Death and Funerals | p. 163 |
Trying to Make Sense of It All | p. 169 |
Constructing a Relationship with the Person Who Died | p. 175 |
Help of All Kinds | p. 180 |
The Early Period after the Death | p. 181 |
Finding Help at School | p. 185 |
Help with Financial and Legal Issues | p. 186 |
Time Moves Forward, but Help Is Still Needed | p. 188 |
Individual Counseling for Children and Adults | p. 191 |
Bereavement Groups for Children and Adults | p. 193 |
Not All Help Is Helpful | p. 198 |
A Reordered Universe | p. 202 |
Continuing Bonds | p. 205 |
What Happens after Death: Faith, Dreams, Visions, and Visits | p. 206 |
Connections over Time | p. 213 |
Looking Back, Looking Ahead | p. 226 |
The New World | p. 227 |
Dating and Remarriage | p. 229 |
The Child's Path | p. 236 |
Index | p. 245 |
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