
Using Writing Interventions to Support Bereaved Students
Lysa Toye and Andrea Warnick
in Supporting Bereaved Students at School
This chapter describes in detail several writing interventions that school-based mental health professionals can use to assist bereaved students in processing their grief. The chapter ...
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Grief, Loss, and War
Kent D. Drescher
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Military service, especially during war, places service members at high risk for grief and loss experiences. For most, grief is a normal and transitory process of adapting to the loss. For ...
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Supporting Grieving Students
David Schonfeld and Thomas Demaria
in Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students: A Guide for School-Based Professionals (2 ed.)
The vast majority of children experience the death of someone close to them. Although common, such losses can have a significant and profound impact on children’s social and emotional ...
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Grief
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
The symptoms of a normal grief reaction typically resolve over the course of a few months as the person processes the loss, thinking through remembered experiences with the deceased. This ...
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Using Creative Art Interventions to Support Bereaved Students
Grace Zambelli
in Supporting Bereaved Students at School
This chapter offers a model for a 10-week creative arts support group for bereaved students in an elementary school setting. Four protective mechanisms relevant to grief are described, ...
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Defining Loss: Preparing to Support Bereaved Students
Tina Barrett and Lindsey M. Nichols
in Supporting Bereaved Students at School
This chapter addresses general knowledge about grief and bereavement in school-age children. Foundational information is offered to support how we define loss from individual, relational, ...
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Using Play Therapy to Support Bereaved Students
Karrie L. Swan and Rebecca Rudd
in Supporting Bereaved Students at School
Using the tenets of child-centered play therapy, this chapter describes interventions that school-based mental health professionals can use to support bereaved children. Children’s ...
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Using Grief Support Groups to Support Bereaved Students
Renée Bradford Garcia
in Supporting Bereaved Students at School
This chapter provides a template for conducting school-based grief support groups for elementary and secondary students. The template supplies school-based mental health professionals with ...
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Supporting Bereaved Students at School
Jacqueline A. Brown and Shane R. Jimerson (eds)
Given that most children will experience the death of at least one close or special person prior to high school graduation, and because the vast majority of children attend school on a ...
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Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Support Bereaved Students
Tyler L. Renshaw, Sarah J. Bolognino, Anthony J. Roberson, Shelley R. Upton, and Kelsie N. Hammons
in Supporting Bereaved Students at School
This chapter discusses how the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) approach can be used to support bereaved students. ACT is focused on understanding how psychological problems develop ...
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The Effect of Loss on the Young
Donald W. Winnicott and Lindy Burton
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
Winnicott, in this short piece written for the Annual General Meeting of Cruse Clubs, a group who attend to loss in families, explores the effects of loss on young children and the need for ...
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Foreword to The Widow’s Child: By Margaret Torrie (Richmond, Surrey: Cruse Clubs, 1964)
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
Winnicott’s foreword to Margaret Torrie’s book, The Widow’s Child, congratulating the author and expressing the wish that it will be used by widows and fatherless children as well as by ...
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Complicated Grief
Roslyn Law
in Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Chapter 2 discusses complicated grief, and how the IPT therapist selects grief as an interpersonal focus when the onset of the patient’s symptoms is associated with the death of a ...
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The Experience of Bereavement for Those with Developmental Disabilities
Patricia A. Wisocki
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter presents case examples of bereavement among those with developmental disabilities; a review of the typical stages of grief, contrasted with what is known about the bereavement ...
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Using Cognitive and Behavioral Methods to Support Bereaved Students
Rosemary Flanagan
in Supporting Bereaved Students at School
This chapter addresses cognitive and behavioral interventions for students experiencing grief and bereavement. The evidence-based treatment package called Trauma-Focused ...
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Dying and Bereavement
Robert Kastenbaum
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter explores dying and bereavement. It first outlines the major causes of death for elderly men and women, and trends that are in evidence in order to present a context for ...
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Assessment and treatment issues in bereavement in later life
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Tamarra Dupart, Weiling Liu, Heather Gray, Tamiko Eto, and Larry W. Thompson
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter reviews demographic information regarding bereavement in later life with emphasis on death of a spouse, which is generally accepted as the most common and traumatic life event ...
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Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
John C. Cavanaugh and Susan Krauss Whitbourne (eds)
This title presents an overview of gerontology appropriate for beginning, graduate and advanced undergraduate students. The text includes seminal chapters on theory, methodology, ...
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End-of-Life and Grief Issues in the School Setting
Cortney T. Zimmerman, Nicole M. Schneider, Ryan M. Hill, and Julie B. Kaplow
in Pediatric Health Conditions in Schools: A Clinician's Guide for Working with Children, Families, and Educators
School-based clinicians are likely to encounter the death of a student or a student’s family member in their work. Providing a supportive school environment is crucial for those coping with ...
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What We Know (And Don’t Know) About the Bereavement Experiences of Same-Sex Spouses
Rachel Donnelly, Corinne Reczek, and Debra Umberson
in LGBTQ Divorce and Relationship Dissolution: Psychological and Legal Perspectives and Implications for Practice
The death of a spouse is an involuntary form of relationship dissolution with deleterious health consequences for the surviving partner. Yet, to date, researchers have not examined ...
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