Give Sorrow Words: Working with a Dying Child

ISBN-13: 9780367101633 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 302 str.

Dorothy Judd

Opis

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 approaches to terminal illness. At the heart of the book is a very moving diary of Judd's work with Robert, a seven-year-old suffering from leukaemia. Judd's account of therapeutic work in the hospital setting, away from the privacy of the consulting room, will be of special interest to mental health professionals. Give Sorrow Words combines great sensitivity to the experience of terminal illness with an astute awareness of the more theoretical debates in this increasingly important area of research.

Spis treści

Foreword , Foreword to the third edition , Preface to the first edition , Preface to the second edition , Preface to the third edition , Introduction to the third edition: developments since 1995 , Note on conventions , Framework , The death of a child , Children’s attitudes to death , The dying child’s awareness of death , Should we talk to children about death? , The stages of emotional reactions to life-threatening illness , Support available , Robert, aged 7-and-a-half , Diary of my work with Robert over 3 months , Postscript , Brief retrospective analysis , Survival or death , Prolonging dying? , Those who survive , After the death of a child , Epilogue , Analysis of Robert’s drawings , Extracts from the Nuremberg Code (1947) , Note on Isabel Menzies Lyth’s ‘The functioning of social systems as a defence against anxiety’ (1959) , Useful addresses

O autorze

Dorothy Judd