Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence (eBook)

Phyllis Cohen, PhD, is the founder and director of the New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence. She is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. K. Mark Sossin, PhD, is professor of psychology and the associate chair of the Department of Psychology at Pace University. He is also the director of the Pace Parent-Infant/Toddler Research Nursery. Richard Ruth, PhD, is associate professor of clinical psychology, director of clinical training, and chair of the child/adolescent track at the George Washington University PsyD program.

ForewordNancy McWilliamsPart I: Overview1: Loss of a Parent During Childhood and Adolescence: A Prismatic Look at the LiteratureK. Mark Sossin, Yelena Bromberg, & Diana HaddadPart II: Therapy in the Office with Children and Their Caregivers2: “Do You Know Anyone Who is Dead?” A Four Year Old Boy Comes to Understand the Unexpected Loss of His Father in the Context of CultureLuz Towns-Miranda3. Walking in Their Shoes: Therapeutic Journeys with Young Girls who Lost Mothers JoAnn Ponder4: “My Daddy is a Star in the Sky”: Understanding and Treating Traumatic Grief in Early ChildhoodChandra Ghosh Ippen, Alicia F. Lieberman, & Joy D. OsofskyPart III: Therapy in the Office with Adolescents5: A Terrible Thing Happened on the Way to Becoming a Girl: Transgender Trauma, Parental Loss, and RecoveryDiane Ehrensaft6: Mourning Childhood Loss in Adolescence: An Indirect Approach to FeelingsDaniel Gensler7: Revisiting, Repairing and Restoring: The Developmental Journey of a Bereaved Adolescent Norka T. MalbergPart IV: Therapy in the Office with Emerging and Older Adults after Earlier Loss of a Parent8: All You Need is Love: Primary Paternal PreoccupationSeth Aronson9. Death and a Daughter’s Diary Billie Ann Pivnick10. Mourning a Ghost: A Challenge for Holocaust Child SurvivorsEva FogelmanPart V: Innovative Applications in Groups, Consultations and Court Assessments 11. When the Context Shifts: A Child Therapist Helping Children in Forensic Systems Who Have Lost a ParentRichard Ruth12. Maintaining Hope in the Face of Despair: The Transference-Countertransference Matrix in Treating Adolescents Coping with Traumatic Parental LossesEtty Cohen13. Take Me to the Moon and Wait: A Model for Accompanying Families with Young Children Through Parental Illness, Death and MourningAriane Schwab Hug and Daniel S. Schechter 14. Father Quest and Linking Objects: A Story of theAmerican World War II Orphans Network (AWON)and Palestinian OrphansVamik D. Volkan15. Death of a Father on September 11, 2001:Video-Informed ConsultationsK. Mark Sossin, Phyllis Cohen, & Beatrice BeebeAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex