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Charles C Thomas [Published Date: 1974]. Hardcover, 247 pp. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by author on front free end paper. Very good in good dust jacket. Grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along. light overall scuffing, aging and spotting to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From front jacket flaps] The taboo on discussion with children about death has finally been lifted. Children can face tire reality of death if they learn to face the reality of life, for death is part of life. CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE WITH DEATH covers all aspects of death that touch the lives of children and adolescents. Written by a practicing child psychologist, this book has the moving quality that comes from direct dialogue with children, adolescents, and parents. The author talks with children and listens to them. She talks with parents and they listen to her. To Ute reader, she reveals what she has found that brings a better understanding of children's ideas, attitudes, and feelings about death. Are you a pediatrician or parent? A psychologist, psychiatrist, nurse, doctor, or social worker? A clergyman, priest, or rabbi? Then this is written to help you. Are you a high school or college instructor giving a course on death, in need of a well organized, authoritative text, yet written in simple language for your students? These twelve chapters of psychological theory are illustrated with interviews and case reports that make generalizations real and meaningful. This book shows how the child and adolescent is affected by his experience with death. Every chapter contains topical headings, a summary, and a list of references to make teaching and learning easy. Chapters cover: developmental concepts of death; fear of death; the hospital experience of the dying child and adolescent; the handicapped child; suicide among children and adolescents; when a parent dies; and the influence of religion on his attitudes toward death. CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE WITH DEATH provides rich and meaningful material that is unique and helpful to all intelligent people who care about children.