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In spite of society's wish to protect and insulate children from death, the experience of loss is unavoidable and there is surprisingly little guidance on how to help children cope with grief and bereavement. Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives is the first book to bring together diverse fields of study and offer a multifaceted theoretical approach to how children experience death. Using stories of children's own experiences supported by data from a large research study, Silverman explains the wide reange of effects of loss upon children, the challenges they face as they grieve, and ways of supporting them as they change and grow in the bereavement process. The book is divided into three parts including an overview and theoretical framework, a detailed analysis of how children experience mourning different types of death (including the death of siblings, parents, and other family members, death due to illness, suicide, accidents, and violence, and how children cope with the grief of widowed parents), and an accessible guide to helping children cope with grief. This book is not only valuable for Psychology and counseling courses on death and dying and the family, but also for Social Work courses dealing with children both at the upper undergraduate/graduate level. In addition, this is a wonderful book for the general public readership who are dealing with death in their children's lives.

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The title does not do it justice. [Never too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives] is far more than the subtitle suggests. ... Silverman has done well to distil the breadth of research covered by this text ... there is great skill in being able to extract the essence of a field and place it in a larger framework. ... It is above all else a book where children are given center stage. --Death Studies

<br> The title does not do it justice. [Never too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives] is far more than the subtitle suggests. ... Silverman has done well to distil the breadth of research covered by this text ... there is great skill in being able to extract the essence of a field and place it in a larger framework. ... It is above all else a book where children are given center stage. --Death Studies<br>

This humane and perceptive book takes up a subject most people try to avoid: how to talk about death, especially with children. Drawing on a rich collection of life stories from parents and children, Phyllis Silverman uses a relational lens to explore the experience of death as human loss and a process of potential growth. Students and their teachers, as well as health care workers, counselors, and therapists will find this book an important reference for their own personal and professional development. -Nona Lyons, Dartmouth College Phyllis Silverman has masterfully shared the real life stories of children and adults who have grieved. In the context of both the historical and research background she has created a communication that will be helpful for those who experience the death of another person on a personal level and for those who work with the bereaved. I highly recommend this book. -Dr. Ida M. Martinson, University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing Weaving together scholarly research, relevant historical perspective, and the insights of the real experts bereaved children and parentsSilverman has written an incisive, thoughtful, compassionate work that challenges many long-standing and erroneous beliefs about how children grieve, and how they heal. -Donna L. Schuurman, The Dougy Center for Grieving Children, Portland Oregon

"""The title does not do it justice. [Never too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives] is far more than the subtitle suggests. ... Silverman has done well to distil the breadth of research covered by this text ... there is great skill in being able to extract the essence of a field and place it in a larger framework. ... It is above all else a book where children are given center stage.""--Death Studies"

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