How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness
Supportive, Practical Advice from a Leading Child Life Specialist
$59.13
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
20 December 2011
Summary
In the fifteen years since it was published, “How To Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness” has become the standard work on the subject. It offers supportive, practical advice, including what to tell children about their parent’s illness, how to recognize early-warning signs in a child’s drawings, sleep patterns, school work and eating habits, and when and where to get professional help. But those fifteen years have brought new developments that will be explored in this greatly expanded new edition, including the dangers and opportunities of the Internet, a deep new understanding of hereditary diseases, the impact of the explosive growth in single-parent families, and new insights into how family trauma and mental illness may affect children.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780312697686 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0312697686 |
| Author: | Kathleen McCue, Ron Bonn |
| Publisher: | Griffin Publishing |
| Imprint: | Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 20 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 560g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“Prepares parents to address children’s fears with absolute honest and profound empathy.” –Booklist
“Offers detailed guidance.” –The New York Times
“McCue and Bonn should earn the gratitude of generations of young people for whom the tragedy of a parent’s loss will be eased by this volume’s sage advice.” –Walter Cronkite
“Clearly written and richly researched, this book is a true how-to manual, exploring specific scenarios and offering step-by-step advice. It is sensitive to the needs of different age groups, family situations, and types of illness.” –Connie Chung
Kathleen McCue
KATHLEEN MCCUE, M.A., C.C.L.S. pioneered the care and treatment of children stressed by a parent’s grave illness in her renowned clinic and playroom at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She then founded and continues to direct the children’s program at The Gathering Place, a support center for families touched by cancer, in Cleveland.
How to Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness is based on her lifetime of experience in the field she helped create.
RON BONN, a three-time Emmy Award winning television journalist for CBS News and NBC News, now teaches journalism at the University of San Diego.
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