Research Catalog

Title

Childhood and death / edited by Hannelore Wass and Charles A. Corr.

Publication

Washington : Hemisphere Pub. Corp., [1984], ©1984.

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Additional Authors

• Wass, Hannelore.
• Corr, Charles A.

Description

xvi, 392 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Series in death education, aging, and health care

Uniform Title

Series in death education, aging, and health care.

Subject

• Children and death
• Terminally ill children > Psychology
• Bereavement in children

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-383).

Contents

I. Death -- Concepts of death : a developmental perspective / Hannelore Wass -- Fears and anxieties about death / Hannelore Wass and Laura Cason -- II. Dying -- Dying children : patterns of coping / Eugenia H. Waechter -- The pediatrician and the dying child / Marylou Behnke ... [et al.] -- Helping the dying child : practical approaches for nonphysicians / David W. Adams -- Helping parents cope : a model home-care program for the dying child / Patricia Carlson ... [et al.] -- Helping siblings and other peers cope with dying / Frederick W. Coleman and Wendy S. Coleman -- Staff stress in the care of the critically ill and dying child / M.L.S. Vachon and Ed Pakes -- Part III. Bereavement -- Children's patterns in mourning the death of a love one / Erna Furman -- Helping families : thoughts of a pediatrician / Morris A. Wessel -- Helping adults mourn the death of a child / Margaret Shandor Miles -- Stillbirth, neonatal death, and sudden infant death syndrome / Glen W. Davidson -- Part IV. Suicide -- Death preoccupations and suicidal behavior in children / Cynthia R. Pfeffer -- Youth suicide / Michael Peck -- Part V. Death education -- Death education in the home : parents talk with their children / Joan N. McNeil -- Teachable moments occasioned by "small deaths" / Ute Carson -- Death education in the schools for older children / Dixie R. Crase and Darrell Crase.

ISBN

• 0891163204
• 9780891163206

LCCN

82023365

OCLC

• ocm09112085
• 9112085
• SCSB-5353312

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries