Give sorrow words : working with a dying child / by Dorothy Judd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Judd, Dorothy, eauthor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children and death.

Terminally ill children--Psychology.

Terminally ill children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though there has been much written about dying and bereavement in recent years, the particular stress of terminal illness in childhood - as it affects both the families and the professionals - is only beginning to be better understood. In this book Dorothy Judd, a child psychotherapist who has worked with ill, disabled and dying children and adolescents for many years, places her clinical experience in the context of a full understanding of death, the moral and ethical issues raised by some of the treatments for life-threatening illness, and the current research into new developments in approaches to terminal illness. At the heart of the book is a very moving diary of Judd's work with Robert, a seven-year-old suffering from leukaemia. Judd's account of therapeutic work in the hospital setting, away from the privacy of the consulting room, will be of special interest to mental health professionals. Give Sorrow Words combines great sensitivity to the experience of terminal illness with an astute awareness of the more theoretical debates in this increasingly important area of research.

Contents:

part one. Framework

part two. Robert, aged 7-and-a-half

part three. Survival or death.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 28, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-91429-6

9780429896981

0-429-47529-2

1-78241-176-3

9780429475290

OCLC:

870587646