3rd Edition

When Parents Die Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent

By Rebecca Abrams Copyright 2013
264 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for adults too, a parent's death can be a tremendous blow. When Parents Die speaks to bereaved children of all ages. Rebecca Abrams draws on her personal and professional understandings of parental... Read more
Foreword to the Third Edition  Introduction  1. My Story  2. First Days, Last Rites  3. Different Deaths, Different Griefs  4. Mourning Time: The First Year  5. Mourning Time: The Second Year and After   6. Changes and Losses: The Private Kind  7. Changes and Losses: The Public Kind  8. Old Grief in New Guises  9. Pathways to the Future  Suggested Reading  Useful Organizations 

Biography

Rebecca Abrams is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. She worked as a bereavement counsellor for Cruse Bereavement Care and at the Cheltenham Ladies’ College for a number of years, and she regularly lectures and leads workshops on young people and parental bereavement. She is a tutor in creative writing at the University of Oxford and writer-in-residence at Larkmead School, Abingdon.

‘The only way we will ever really understand what it means to grieve is when we learn from those who are bereaved and can share their experience with us. This book is a wonderful example of how Rebecca Abrams used her own experience with death and the grief that followed to help herself and others.’ – Phyllis R. Silverman, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator, Harvard Child Bereavement Study, USA.