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Protecting Children from Violence
Evidence-Based Interventions
- Edited by James Michael Lampinen, and Kathy Sexton-Radek.
Published April 2010
Providing an evidence based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence. Various types of violence are reviewed including physical and sexual abuse, (cyber-)bullying, human…
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Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy
A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner, Fourth Edition
- By J. William Worden.
Published December 2009
Grief affects different people in different ways, most emerge from mourning in a healthy manner but for some the death of a loved one can cause intense emotional pain that is difficult to recover from. This type of grief can often surface as an underlying cause of physical and mental health…
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Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
The Experience of Survivorship
- By Anne Grinyer.
Published April 2009
Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important work offers a glimpse into a previously…
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Hospice and Palliative Care
The Essential Guide
- By Stephen R. Connor.
Published April 2009
In the past 35 years, the hospice movement has undergone major changes and has grown enormously. Palliative care is of growing importance to society as our culture struggles with how to provide compassionate end-of-life care to a growing segment of the population. This book provides professionals…
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The Children Who Lived
Using Harry Potter and Other Fictional Characters to Help Grieving Children and Adolescents
- By Kathryn A. Markell, and Marc A. Markell.
Published April 2008
Harry Potter’s encounters with grief, as well as the grief experiences of other fictional characters, can be used by educators, counselors, and parents to help children and adolescents deal with their own loss issues. The Children Who Lived is a unique approach toward grief and loss in children.…
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The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System
Through the Cracks
- By Lois Weinberg.
Published October 2007
The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System tells the stories of 10 children in the foster care system from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and the efforts by advocates to find them permanent places to live, appropriate schooling, and other essentials they need to…
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Handbook of Thanatology
The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement
- Edited by David Balk.
Published October 2007
If ever there was an area requiring that the research-practice gap be bridged, surely it occurs where thanatologists engage with people dealing with human mortality and loss. The field of thanatology - the study of death and dying - is a complex, multidisciplinary area that…
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Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents
Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context
- By Kathleen Nader.
Published September 2007
In this volume, Kathleen Nader has compiled an articulate and comprehensive guide to the complex process of assessment in youth and adolescent trauma. There are many issues that are important to evaluating children and adolescents, and it is increasingly clear that reliance on just one type of…
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The Art of Grief
The Use of Expressive Arts in a Grief Support Group
- Edited by J. Earl Rogers.
Published June 2007
Art and other expressive therapies are increasingly used in grief counseling, not only among children and adolescents, but throughout the developmental spectrum. Creative activities are commonly used in group and individual psychotherapy programs, but it is only relatively recently that these…
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Child Sexual Abuse
Disclosure, Delay, and Denial
- Edited by Margaret-Ellen Pipe, Michael E. Lamb, Yael Orbach and Ann-Christin Cederborg.
Published April 2007
This volume provides the first rigorous assessment of the research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings. Leading researchers and practitioners from diverse and international backgrounds offer critical commentary on…
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