Death and the Adolescent: A Resource Handbook for Bereavement Support Groups in Schools

By Wendy J. Stuart and Grant W. Baxter

Book Overview

The death of a loved one can create special challenges for adolescents. This manual provides information, guidelines, and suggestions for parents, teachers, and other caregivers in helping teenagers who have lost a parent, sibling, or close friend through death. Drawing on their own extensive experience as bereavement counsellors, the authors explain in detail how to conduct a bereavement support group for adolescents. In addition they examine problems typically encountered by bereaved teens, and provide clinical case studies that show a range of grieving patterns. The book includes a description of the mourning and funeral rites practised by a variety of religious and ethnic groups, and concludes with a bibliography and a list of community resources.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802078125
• ISBN13: 9780802078124
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Good addition to library

What I liked about this resource is that it provided the multicultural aspects of adolescent grief and loss

A Useful Guide for Educators

I ordered Death & the Adolescent for a counselor on my staff after we learned that the mother of one of our teens committed suicide. The guide contains a plethora of practical exercises for both group & individual counseling sessions. It is very user friendly and I plan on ordering a copy for each guidance counselor and social worker in my Guidance Department.