Beyond the Innocence of Childhood, Volume 3: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope With Death and Bereavement (Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource)
by David W. Adams, Eleanor J. Deveau

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Summary of Beyond the Innocence of Childhood, Volume 3: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope With Death and Bereavement (Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource)

Beyond the Innocence of Childhood is a collection of forty chapters which are divided into three separate volumes. The overall purpose of this series is to answer the question : How do we as educators, clinicians, other professionals, and parents help children and adolescents deal with threat to their lives, dying, death, and bereavement?

In this three volume set the editors have brought together a number of well-known educators, researchers, and practitioners who share their knowledge and expertise concerning the care and well-being of children and adolescents.

Children explore the world around them through spontaneous, and later, structured learning, acquire knowledge, learn to understand themselves, establish their role in the family, develop peer and adult relationships, and find their place in the world. However, today's society does not include death as part of this developmental process. Unfortunately, such avoidance may negatively influence children's ability to acquire an understanding of the concepts of death and to develop positive attitudes toward death.

Highlights of this section include: Answering children's questions; Children and death--past, present, and future; Gender differences; Teachable moments; Perceptions of death, Cognitive development, and Children's artwork

The second part of volume 1 examines influences in today's society that potentially impact on children and adolescents' perceptions and attitudes toward life-threatening illness and death. This volume offers readers valuable insights into the various factors which ultimately affect children's ability to achieve a mature understanding of death. Features include the following: Violent death in a popular culture and the media; Political conflict and war; The epidemic of AIDS; Cultural differences in the management of life-threatening illness; Death rituals and funeral ceremonies.

This important new work is already considered to be the definitive reference resource in death education and grief counseling. Intended Audience: educators, researchers, clinicians, counselors, caregivers, and parents.

General Books

• Health, Mind & Body > Death & Grief
• Grief & Bereavement
• Psychology & Counseling > Child Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• General
• Parenting & Families > General
• Nonfiction > Social Sciences