Overview
Developmental
Perspective on Children's Understanding of Death
Preschoolers
and School-Age Children
Bereavement
in Adolescence
Abandonment, Foster Care
Military Families
Sibling Loss
Trauma
and Bereavement (Violence, Suicide)
Preventive
Interventions and Psychotherapy
Overview of Childhood
Bereavement
Altschul, S. (1988). Childhood Bereavement and Its Aftermath.
Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Berlinsky, E.B. and Biller, H.B. (1992), Parental Death and Psychological
Development. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Cain, A., Kalter, N., et al. Parentally Bereaved Children: Factors
Associated with Psychosocial Adjustment. (In preparation).
Edelman, Hope (2006).
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss (Second Edition). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, Perseus Books
Group. ISBN-13: 978-0-7382-1026-1 (paperback), 978-0-465-05653-9
Grollman, Earl A., Ed. (1996). Bereaved
Children and Teens: A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals. Boston:
Beacon Press.
Osterweis, M. et al. (Eds.) (1984), Bereavement: Reactions,
Consequences, and Care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Samuels, A. (1988). Parental Death in Childhood. In Altschul, S., Ed.,
Childhood Bereavement and Its Aftermath, Madison, CT:
International Universities Press.
Silverman, P., Klass, D., Nickman, S. (1966), Continuing Bonds: A
New Understanding of Grief. Washington, D.C.: Taylor and Francis.
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a Parent. In Bereavement: A Sourcebook of Research Intervention.
Strobe, M., Stroebe, W., & Hanson, R.. (Eds.), England: Cambridge University
Press.
Walsh, Fromma & McGoldrick, Monica. (2004) Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family.
Second Edition. NY: W.W. Norton. This is a well-written book whose greatest
value is putting the subject of loss in a cultural context. The family context
is also highlighted; however, that aspect does not offer anything that has not
been said before by others.
Developmental
Perspective on Children's Understanding of Death
Christ, Grace Hyslop
(2000).
Healing Children's Grief:
Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer. NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN:
0-19-510590-7 (hardcover), 0-19-510590-5 (paperback).
Garber. Benjamin. (2008) Mourning in Children: A
Theoretical Synthesis and Clinical Application. Annual of Psychoanalysis, 36: 174-188.
Speece, M.W., & Brent, S.B. (1992), The Acquisition of a Mature
Understanding of Three Components of a Concept of Death. Death Studies.
16:211-229.
Stambrook, M., & Parker, K.C. (1987), The Development of the Concept of
Death in Childhood: A Review of the Literature. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.
33:133-157.
Talmon, O., Kederm, P., & Har-Even, D., Orbach, I., (1987). Sequential
Patterns of Five Subconcepts of Human and Animal Death in Children. Journal
of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 26:578-582.
Worden, J. William,
(1996). Children and Grief: When
a Parent Dies. NY: Guilford Press. ISBN: 1-57230-148-1 (hardcover),
1-57230-746-3 (Paperback)
Zero to Three, Coping
with Trauma and Loss. Zero
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Childhood
Mourning and Adaptation: Preschoolers and School-Age Children
Barnes, M.I. (1964), Reactions to the Death
of a Mother. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 15:9-52. NY:
International Universities Press.
Cain, A., Kalter, N., et al. Parentally Bereaved Children:
Factors Associated with Psychosocial Adjustment. (In preparation).
Chetnik, M. (1970). The Impact of Object Loss on a Six-Year-Old. Journal
of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry. 9:625-643.
Essa, E., & Murray, C. (1994), Young Children’s
Understanding and Experience with Death. Young Children. 49:No. 4, May
1994. pp. 74-81.
Furman, E. (1990). Plant a Potato – Learn about Life (and
Death). Young Children, November , pp. 15-20.
--------, (1984), Children’s Patterns in Mourning the Death of a Loved
One. In. H. Wass & C. Carr. (Eds), Childhood and Death.
NY: Hemisphere Pub. Co. Pp. 185-203
--------, (1974), A Child’s Parent Dies: Studies in Childhood
Bereavement. New Haven, CT:Yale University Press. Pp. 11-26.
Furman, R. (1995), Helping Children Cope with Stress and Deal with
Feelings. Young Children, Jan. 1995, pp. 33-41.
-------- (1964), Death and the Young Child: Some Preliminary
Considerations. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 19:377-396. NY:
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Knight-Birnbaum, N., & C. Webber (1993). Childhood Mourning
and the Learning Process, In K. Field, E. Kaufman, & C. Salzman
(Eds.) Emotions and Learning Reconsidered: An International Perspective.
NY: Gardner Press.
McDonald, M. (1964), A Study of the Reactions of Nursery School
Children to the Death of a Child’s Mother. The Psychoanalytic Study of the
Child. 19:358-376. NY: International Universities Press.
Palombo, J. (1981). Parent Loss and Childhood Bereavement: Some
Theoretical Considerations. Clinical Social Work Journal,
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Silverman, P.R. et al. (1992), Detachment Revisited: The Child’s
Reconstruction of A Dead Parent. American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry, 62:494-503.
--------., & Worden, J. (1993). Children’s Reactions to the Death of
a Parent. In M. Stroebe, W. Stroebe & R. Hansson (Eds.),
Bereavement, A Sourcebook of Research and Intervention. England:
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Weller, E. (1993), Psychosocial Functioning of Children After the Death
of a Parent. American. Journal of Psychiatry, March.
Bereavement in
Adolescence
Brockman, D.D. (1988). Preadolescence and Early Adolescence: A
Reconstruction. In S. Altschul (Ed.), Childhood Bereavement and Its
Aftermath, Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Garber, B. 1995), The Child and Adolescent Literature about the Death
of a Parent. Adolescent Psychiatry. Marohn, R., (Ed.), Vol. XX.
Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
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--------, (1983), Some Thoughts on Normal Adolescents Who Lost a Parent
Through Death. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Vol. 12, No. 3.
Abandonment, Foster Care
Bowlby, John (1980). Loss: Sadness
and Depression. NY: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-004237-6 (cloth),
0-465-04238-4 (paper).
Krebs, Tracy. Loyalty Issues in Foster Care.
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Osofsky, J.D.(1992). Affective development
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Psychology (pp. 233-244).. Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association.
Samuels, S. C..(1995). Helping foster
children to mourn past relationships. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child,
50:308-326.
Military
Families, Loss and Grief
Hockstader, Lee. Loneliness, anxiety
grip students and staff while family members are assigned to Iraq. Washington
Post, Jan. 12, 2004, p. A01.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8425-2004Jan11?language=printer
Newsweek. Children of the fallen.
March 21, 2005.
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Vlahos, Kelley Beaucar. War takes toll on
military kids. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119887,00.html
Zero to Three. Supporting Babies and Toddlers
in Military Families: A Professional Guide.
http://www.zerotothree.org/about-us/funded-projects/military-families/syc-3.pdf
Sibling Loss
Crehan,
G. (2004). The Surviving Sibling: The Effects of Sibling Death in Childhood. Psychoanal. Psyotherapy,
18: 202-219.
Fanos,
Joanna H. (1996).
Sibling Loss.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 0-8058-1777-8
(c), 0-8058-1778-6 (p).
The
Interaction of Trauma and Bereavement; Considerations of Traumatic
Loss
Altman, Neil (2010). The Analyst in the Inner
City: Race, Class and Cullture through a Pschoanalyhtic Lens. (Second Edition).
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Blum, Harold P. (2003).
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Amer. Psychoanalytic Assn., 51:
415-431.
Cerel, J., Fristad, M.A., Weller, E.. & Weller, R.A. (1999).
Suicide-bereaved Children and Adolescents; A Controlled Longitudinal
Examination. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, 38, 672-679.
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the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, April, 2004.
Discusses research on the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11.
Furman, E., (1986), On Trauma, When is the Death of a Parent
Traumatic? Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. New Haven: International
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Garbarino, J., Dubrow, N., Kostelny, K., & Pardo,
C. (1992).
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of Early Intervention. Chapter 8, Developing Supportive Settings
For Children at Risk. Chapter 9, Helping Teachers Help Children. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Osofsky, Joy D.
(Editor). (2004). Young Children and Trauma: Intervention and Treatment.
NY: Guilford Press. This is a very useful book for anyone who works with
severely traumatized young children, mostly pre-schoolers. Dr. Osofsky is a
highly respected analytically-oriented researcher in this field. The book is a
compilation from various contributors; however, the chapters by Dr. Osofsky are
the strongest.
Parsons, E.R. (1995), Post-Traumatic Stress and Coping in an Inner-City
Child; Traumatogenic Witnessing of Interparental Violence and Murder.
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Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing.
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Psychotherapy; A Bereavement Reaction. In M.Chethik, Techniques of Child
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Christ, Grace Hyslop
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(paperback).
Coleman, S. (1991), Intergenerational Patterns of
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