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The Bereaved Child: Analysis, Education, and Treatment. An ab
stracted bibliography is a comprehensive abstracted bibliography
focusing on the reactions and coping mechanisms of children and
adolescents to the death of parents, siblings, friends, teachers,
pets or even presidents. Publication dealing with both normative
and pathological stages of bereavement are reviewed. Materials
covering childhood concepts/attitudes toward death are included.
Citations appear which explore child death education/counseling
issues for parents and educators when they involve actual or antic
ipated death. Articles are reviewed which deal with the importance
of the adult role in the mourning process of the child. For
example, decisions such as whether a child should attend a funeral
or return to school are examined. Publications are included which
explore the short and l'ong term developmental consequences of
childhood death experience. It is important to note that the topic
of the dying child was excluded. The Bereaved Child contains over
550 citations in author alphabetized and abstracted form. Only
English-written books and periodicals are represented. A quick
glance will reveal that the bulk of the material is post-1960. This
reflects the recency of in terest and study in the area of
childhood bereavement. Literature across multiple disciplines was
scanned and included. Psychology, medicine, social work, and
education are heavily represented, while no theological, literary,
or popular sources were examined."
The Hospitalized Child: Psychosocial Issues is a comprehensive,
abstracted bibliography focusing on the behavioral and
developmental consequences of short-term, long-term or recurrent
hospitalization during childhood and adolescence. The emphasis of
this volume is on the psychosocial issues related to the hospital
experience/environ ment, rather than on adaptation to or coping
with particular disease states or terminal illness. Publications
are included which identify potential problems of hospitalization,
coping mechanisms of patients, parents, and staff, and possible
solutions. For example, the articles covered in this volume discuss
the trauma which may result from the child's separation from
mother/family/peers, anxiety over medical pro cedures,
unfamiliarity of the hospital environment, absence from school,
restrictions on physical activity, forced dependency and con cerns
over body image. The search for solutions to adaptation diffi
culties often results in the creation of new hospital programs.
These too are reviewed in this bibliography. Examples include
child-life programs, the care-by-parent units, foster
grandparent/surrogate mother programs, and hospital or surgical
orientation programs. New therapeutic approaches have been
attempted in a hospital setting, in cluding bibliotherapy, puppet
therapy, play therapy and mutual-story telling techniques. Each of
these innovations is represented in the bibliography. Further,
hospital redesign schemes are reviewed, in cluding the feasibility
of separate adolescent wards. And finall, modification of hospital
policy has been examined, including estab lishment of liberal
visiting privileges, parent rooming-in, day v vi PREFACE surgery,
and improved communication between patient, parent, and hos pital
staff."
Parent-Child Separation: Psychosocial Effects on Development is an
abstracted bibliography dealing with the consequences of parental
separation and deprivation on the developing child and adolescent.
We were interested in investigating the literature pertaining to
the absence of a parent for reasons other than parental death. Main
topics included were maternal or paternal absence due to desertion,
military duty, imprisonment, parental institutionalization and
divorce. Restricted parenting articles were included when they
dealt with maternal or paternal inattention, rather than physical
abuse. Particular problems with being a single parent were viewed
from the perspective of child development. Because of the wealth of
literature available in this area it became necessary to exclude
topics such as laboratory studies dealing with temporary
separation, normative attachment studies, effects of maternal
employment, child abuse, child institutionalization and the like.
Other related topics will be the subject of forthcoming books.
These include the effect of parental death on the child and
problems of childhood hospitali zation. In Parent-Child Separation
each of the 690 main references have abstracts which were derived
from three main sources: Psycho logical Abstracts, author-supplied
abstracts and those written by the authors of this book. In
compiling this book it became neces sary, because of size
limitations, to focus on articles published after 1960. However,
several pre-1960 articles and books were im portant from a
historical perspective and are included in a separate section
marked "Historical References. " These represent important earlier
contributions to this vast subject area."
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