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Protecting Children from Violence

Evidence-Based Interventions

Protecting Children from Violence
  • 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

Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy
  • 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

Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
  • 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

Hospice and Palliative Care
  • 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

The Children Who Lived
  • 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

Handbook of Thanatology
  • 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

Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents
  • 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

The Art of Grief
  • 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

Child Sexual Abuse
  • 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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