Bibliotherapy for Bereaved Children

Eileen H. Jones worked extensively in Special Education and in School Psychological Services, as a Pastoral Head of first and second year comprehensive school pupils. Her areas of study included Psychology for Children with School Refusal and School Phobia, the use of hypnosis and visualisation in treating anxiety, and the effects of bereavement on children and their families. She also spent six years as an accredited Cruse Bereavement Counsellor.

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1. What is bibliotherapy? An overview. Chapter 2. How real do we want our realism about death? Chapter 3. How do authors present death? Then and now. Chapter 4. How do writers and readers communicate? Chapter 5. Classification of books with topics of death. Chapter 6. Detailed study of the novel `Squib'. Chapter 7. Discussion and implications. Appendix A: Analysis of passage from "Squib".Appendix B: Sources of book lists. Bibliography. References. Index.