Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children
who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a richly textured portrait of
the mourning process in children.Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children
who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a portrait of the mourning
process in children. The volume presents major findings from the Harvard Child
Bereavement Study and places them in the context of previous research, shedding
new light on both the wide range of normal variation in children's experience
of grief and the factors that put bereaved children at risk. The book also
compares parentally bereaved children with those who have suffered loss of a
sibling to death, or of a parent through divorce, exploring similarities and
differences in these experiences of loss. A concluding section explores the
clinical implications of the findings and includes a review of intervention
models and activities, as well as a screening instrument designed to help
identify high-risk bereaved children.
