Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Explaining Death to Children and to Ourselves; one: Death in the World of Children and Adolescents; 2: Helping Children Cope with Death; 3: Understanding Adolescents and Death; 4: College Student Death: Postvention Issues for Educators and Counselors; 5: Preserving Children's Mental Health Under Threat of War; 6: Suicidal Attempts and Suicides in Greek Adolescents; two: Grieving Children and Families; 7: A Child's Perception of Death; 8: Group Intervention with Bereaved Children *; 9: Responses of Children to the Death of a Sibling; 10: Family Intervention with Families Bereaved or About to be Bereaved; three: Dying Children, Families, and Professionals; 11: The Dying Child; 12: Utilizing Art and Imagery in Death and Dying Counseling; 13: The Seriously Ill Child: Management of Family and Medical Surroundings; 14: On the Choice to Live or Die; four: Programs for the Care of Dying Children and their Families; 15: Care of the Child Dying from Cancer: Home vs. Hospital; 16: Home-Based Palliative Care for Children: A Feasibility Study; 17: Coping with Terminal Care in Pediatric Cancer; 18: Hospice Care for Children: Their Families and Health Care Providers; five: Parental Bereavement and Adjustment to the Loss of a Child; 19: Parental Adjustment to the Loss of a Child; 20: Grief Is an Individual Journey: Follow-up of Families Postdeath of a Child with Cancer; 21: Marital Intimacy in Bereaved and Nonbereaved Couples: A Comparative Study; 22: Legitimate Grieving?: Working with Infertility; six: Stress, Coping, and Needs of Professionals; 23: Working with Dying Children: A Professional's Personal Journey; 24: Professional Stress: Creating a Context for Caring; 25: Achievement in Failure: Working with Staff in Dangerous Situations; Conclusion; 26: Children and Death: Insights, Hindsights, and Illuminations; Epilogue; 27: Before Adolescence and Coming of Age