Brief interventions with bereaved children / edited by Barbara Monroe and Frances Kraus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monroe, Barbara (Social work executive)

Kraus, Frances.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bereavement in children.

Social with with children.

Brief psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Recent years have seen increasing interest in the needs of children facing bereavement, and a corresponding increase in services to support them. This book addresses and explains the theoretical concepts and practical implications behind the idea of brief work with bereaved children and families. Flexible and accessible short-term services delivered at the right time underpin the strengths of bereaved children, supporting their recovery rather than pathologizing the grief process. In this way, the book also speaks to the current interest in the concept of resilience and working with families' strengths and possibilities rather than merely identifying their problems.

The topic of this book is unique in the field, and will appeal to practitioners, educators, and service providers managing scarce resources. The editors have more than twenty years' experience as practitioners within the field, as service providers and as educators. The book features chapters from distinguished contributors with backgrounds in health care, education, social work, and the police, alongside theoretical and practice-based chapters from workers in the field of bereavement care for children. There is also a chapter from the service user's perspective. The book looks at different approaches to intervention, such as the importance of assessment and the value of groupwork, and also covers work with children and families before a death.

Contents:

1 Work with bereaved children / Sarah Willis 1

2 Theoretical perspectives: linking research and practice / Ann Dent 13

3 Family assessment / Julie Stokes 29

4 The family perspective in bereavement / Peta Hemmings 49

5 Therapeutic interventions / Patsy Way, Isobel Bremner 65

6 One-off or once a term: brief interventions in groupwork / Frances Kraus 81

7 Shrinking the space between people / Di Stubbs 97

8 The extended warranty / Frances Kraus 113

9 Swampy ground: brief interventions with families before bereavement / Gillian Chowns 125

10 Working with volunteers to provide bereavement support to children / Christine Pentland 141

11 Loss and grief in school communities / Louise Rowling 159

12 Brief interventions in critical care environments / Peter Speck 175

13 Working with traumatically bereaved children / William Yule 187

14 Helping the family following suicide / Kari Dyregrov, Atle Dyregrov 201

15 Family liaison: when once has to be enough / Julie Ellison 217

16 Crossing the great barrier grief / Stewart Sinclair 227.

ISBN:

0198529090

OCLC:

57006199