The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children: Treating Children with Complicated Mourning and Advice for Parents (Death, Value and Meaning Series)

"This book is designed for clinicians, educators, clergy, and nurses - anyone who is assisting children who have experienced the death of a loved one. This work offers a unique framework for helping children heal from the wounds created by the life process of death, a framework that has its defining basis in children's magical thought. Magical thought is motivated by the desire of a child with incomplete cognitive equipment to understand his world. Magical thought helps children develop inaccurate conclusions about many aspects of death and their own personal grief, often suggesting that they or someone else is responsible for the loss."--BOOK JACKET

intended For Clinicians, Educators, Nurses, And Others Charged With Assisting Children Who Have Experienced The Death Of A Loved One, This Book Describes How Children's Grief-related Magical Thinking Can Inhibit Their Recovery And Create Significant Personality Disorders. It Provides Interactive Therapeutic Techniques To Bring Children Back To Truthful Thoughts And To Create An Environment That Is Healing. Paper Edition (unseen), $25.95. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

Useful for clinicians, educators, clergy, and nurses, this work offers a framework for helping children heal from the wounds created by the life process of death, a framework that has its defining basis in children's magical thought. The focus of this and the next chapter is to lay a foundation before presenting the Model of Magical Thought.