Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-396) and indexes.
Contents:
Adolescents, developmental tasks, and encounters with death and bereavement -- Ambiguity in adolescent understandings of death -- Adolescents, homicidal violence, and death -- Adolescents, suicide, and death -- Adolescents and AIDS: epidemiology, prevention, and psychological responses -- Adolescents who are living with a life-threatening illness -- Bereavement in adolescence -- Adolescent responses to the death of a parent -- Adolescent sibling bereavement: toward a new theory -- Death of a friend during adolescence: issues and impacts -- Helping families with adolescents cope with loss -- Adolescents and education about death, dying, and bereavement -- Postvention with early and middle-adolescents -- The need for postvention on college campuses: a rationale and case study findings -- Support groups for bereaved adolescents -- Professional interventions to assist adolescents who are coping with death and bereavement -- Helping adolescents who are coping with a life-threatening illness, along with their siblings, parents, and peers.
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