How to Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness: Supportive, Practical Advice from a Leading Child Life Specialist

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How to Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness has become the standard work on an important subject. A classic for over fifteen years, it continues to be a go-to book for supportive, practical advice, based on the lifetime experience and clinical practice of one of America ‘s leading child life practitioners.

Fully revised and updated, this new edition also explores the major issues and developments from the last decade that affect children today, including the dangers and opportunities of the Internet, a deeper understanding of how hereditary diseases affect children, the impact of the nation’s explosive growth in single-parent families, and new insights into how family trauma and a parent’s mental illness may affect children.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin’s Griffin
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 20, 2011
Edition ‏ : ‎ Second Edition, Revised
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312697686
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312697686
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 0.95 x 8.2 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #130,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #312 in Grief & Bereavement #446 in Medical General Psychology #529 in Interpersonal Relations (Books)
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