The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children: Treating Children with Complicated Mourning and Advice for Parents (Death, Value and Meaning Series) - Softcover

Fogarty, James. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895032066 ISBN 13: 9780895032065

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

This book is designed for clinicians, educators, clergy, and nurses - anyone who is assisting children who have experienced the death of a loved one. This work offers a unique framework for helping children heal from the wounds created by the life process of death, a framework that has its defining basis in children's magical thought. Magical thought is motivated by the desire of a child with incomplete cognitive equipment to understand his world. Magical thought helps children develop inaccurate conclusions about many aspects of death and their own personal grief, often suggesting that they or someone else is responsible for the loss.

About this title

From the Publisher

Intended Audience: Social workers, psychologists, nurses, marital and family therapists, hospice workers, chaplains, teachers, school psychologists, school social workers, school counselors, crisis interventionists, parent organizations, state and local organizations, parents of children who are experiencing complicated mourning.

About the Author

Dr. James A. Fogarty is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified school psychologist, and national lecturer on the topics of children's grief issues and behavioral problems. He is on the faculty of the American Academy of Bereavement and the Heritage Professional Education Institute. He has been counseling, advising, and assisting families and children for over twenty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0895032066
• ISBN 13: 9780895032065
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184