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After a Parent`s Suicide
- Subtitle:
- Helping children heal
- Author:
- Requarth, Margo
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- $35.00
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Product Description
Published USA, 2006
In this instructive and impassioned work, longtime children`s bereavement counsellor and psychotherapist, Margo Requarth, charts the complex emotional waters every family must navigate in the wake of a previously unimaginable suicide death. Starting with the tale of her own mother`s suicide, Requarth weaves together her experience counselling survivors, poignant interviews with children, teenagers and parents, and the latest research on suicide and its aftermath. What emerges is a groundbreaking how-to guide for parent survivors: how to manage both the immediate and long-term implications of the suicide, how to talk to your children, how to see them through the heart-rending anguish to a place of acceptance, healing and, finally, a renewed and deepened capacity for joy.
CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS
Telling Your Child
How Young Children Grieve
Teen Grief
What Your Child`s Teachers Need to Know
Memory Building: Stories That Speak to Life
When Your Spouse Carries Out Suicide
A Divorced/Separated Partner`s Perspective
Complicated Mourning
Margo Requarth is the Bereavement Services Director at a hospice in California, USA
Paperback. 254 pages
In this instructive and impassioned work, longtime children`s bereavement counsellor and psychotherapist, Margo Requarth, charts the complex emotional waters every family must navigate in the wake of a previously unimaginable suicide death. Starting with the tale of her own mother`s suicide, Requarth weaves together her experience counselling survivors, poignant interviews with children, teenagers and parents, and the latest research on suicide and its aftermath. What emerges is a groundbreaking how-to guide for parent survivors: how to manage both the immediate and long-term implications of the suicide, how to talk to your children, how to see them through the heart-rending anguish to a place of acceptance, healing and, finally, a renewed and deepened capacity for joy.
CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS
Telling Your Child
How Young Children Grieve
Teen Grief
What Your Child`s Teachers Need to Know
Memory Building: Stories That Speak to Life
When Your Spouse Carries Out Suicide
A Divorced/Separated Partner`s Perspective
Complicated Mourning
Margo Requarth is the Bereavement Services Director at a hospice in California, USA
Paperback. 254 pages
