Beyond the innocence of childhood

Beyond the innocence of childhood (3 volumes) edited by David W. Adams and Eleanor J. Deveau. Baywood Publishing, 1995.

This three-volume set is designed for the professional working with bereaved children and teenagers, specifically educators and medical professionals. Each volume has a different theme.
Volume 1: Factors influencing children and adolescents' perceptions and attitudes towards death.
This volume focuses upon the issue of death as a topic for discussion with children and adolescents. It includes chapters on: Gender differences in children's understanding of death; Perceptions of death through the eyes of children and adolescents; Appetite for destruction: Children and violent death in popular culture; AIDS and our children; Do children belong at funerals?
Volume 2: Helping children and adolescents cope with life-threatening illness and death.
In Part A topics focus on different forms of therapy, including: art; music; play; story and active imagination; humour and laughter; pets and camps. Topics discussed in Part B include: palliative care; the impact of the hospital system; lessons on living; imagery; truth-telling; spirituality; developing a children's hospice.
Volume 3: Helping children and adolescents cope with death and bereavement.
Topics discussed in this volume include: anticipatory grief; the effects of sibling death; the impact of parental death; AIDS; the aftermath of suicide; domestic violence; the death of a classmate; group intervention; adolescent grief support groups.