Give Sorrow Words : Working with a Dying Child

✍ Scribed by Judd, Dorothy

• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Edition: Third edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Though there has been much written about dying and bereavement in recent years, the particular stress of terminal illness in childhood - as it affects both the families and the professionals - is only beginning to be better understood. In this book Dorothy Judd, a child psychotherapist who has worked with ill, disabled and dying children and adolescents for many years, places her clinical experience in the context of a full understanding of death, the moral and ethical issues raised by some of the treatments for life-threatening illness, and the current research into new developments in approa.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

COVER
Dedication Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Foreword to third edition
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition
Introduction to third edition
Note on conventions
Part One: Framework
Chapter One: The death of a child
Chapter Two: Children's attitudes to death
Chapter Three: The dying child's awareness of death
Chapter Four: Should we talk to children about death?
Chapter Five: The stages of emotional reactions to life-threatening illness
Chapter Six: Support available. Part Two: Robert, aged 7-and-a-halfChapter Seven: Diary of my work with Robert over 3 months
Chapter Eight: Postscript
Chapter Nine: Brief retrospective analysis
Part Three: Survival or death
Chapter Ten: Prolonging dying?
Chapter Eleven: Those who survive
Chapter Twelve: After the death of a child
Epilogue
Appendix I: Analysis of Robert's drawings
Appendix II: Extracts from the Nuremberg Code (1947)
Appendix III: Note on Isabel Menzies Lyth's 'The functioning of social systems as a defence against anxiety' (1959)
Glossary
Useful addresses
References
Index.

✦ Subjects

Terminally ill children Psychology Children and death Death Psychological aspects Cancer Critically Psychotherapy HEALTH FITNESS Diseases General MEDICAL Clinical Medicine Evidence Based Internal