After the death of a child : living with loss through the years /

Finkbeiner, Ann K.,

After the death of a child : living with loss through the years / Ann K. Finkbeiner. - Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed. - Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. - xiv, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273).

In "the first book to examine the long-term nature of parental grief through the tales of those who suffer it" ("Baltimore Sun"), Finkbeiner, who lost her son in an accident, asked hard questions of 30 bereaved parents. Here she combines their answers and her research into a description of the parents' lives afterwards.

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Bereavement--Psychological aspects
Grief.
Teenagers--Death--Psychological aspects.
Children--Death--Psychological aspects
Loss (Psychology)