Sibling Bereavement
The Endless Bookcase (Verlag)
978-1-912243-65-5 (ISBN)
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The emotional effect of losing a brother or sister can result in severe trauma for a child. Many children find it difficult to mourn a lost sibling, and parents can have a hard time helping their children while they themselves are mourning. Written from personal experience, this book insists that there is no `right' way for parents to behave towards surviving children. It looks at the many and various effects of sibling bereavement as it bears upon the whole family: the repercussions of lack of support; surviving children who act as comforters to their parents; guilt; projections of anger; unresolved conflicts; consequent family relationships; and children who can't or won't mourn. The author uses real-life case studies to illustrate her points, and clarification of the issues involved is provided throughout by the views of an experienced psychologist who has worked with disturbed children. While remaining non-prescriptive, the book is a guide to achieving a `healthy' mourning process, enabling individuals to move forward, even though life can never be the same again. Ann Farrant is a freelance journalist, writer and researcher. She has worked in many branches of the media - newspaper, magazines and BBC Television. In the 1970s she was a founder member of Cruse Bereavement Care in Norwich; she has also worked as a volunteer fund-raiser for the children's charity UNICEF.
Ann Farrant was educated at Norwich High School and trained as a journalist with the Norfolk News Company (now Archant). She is the mother of five daughters, one of whom died at the age of three, and the aftermath of whose death prompted Ann's book Sibling Bereavement: Helping Children Cope with Loss. While raising her family Ann worked as a free-lance reporter, feature writer and book reviewer for newspapers and magazines. After her marriage ended in 1985 she turned to television news reporting, later becoming one of the producers of BBC Look East. For many years Ann was a fund-raiser for the Children's Research Fund which helped finance research into children's illnesses and diseases. In the 1970s she was a founder member of Cruse Bereavement Care in Norwich. On a lighter side, in 1973 she helped to launch a theatre newspaper Encore for the Theatre Royal in Norwich, under its celebrated general manager Dick Condon. She was honorary press officer on the steering committee which set up Norwich Puppet Theatre in 1980. As a mature student at the University of East Anglia, from 2000 to 2002, Ann achieved an MA in Life Writing, for which her dissertation on the writer Amelia Opie (1769-1853) won two literary awards. Over the next few years, when time permitted, she continued researching her subject at libraries and galleries at home and abroad. Her biography Amelia Opie: The Quaker Celebrity was published in December 2014 by JJG Publishing.
About the Author, About Sibling Bereavement, Introduction, Preface, Bereavement counselling, Infant mortality, Sibling substitutes, Dead sibling fantasies, The scapegoat, Never the same again, Mother's comfort, The parental dilemma, The black sheep, The avenging sister, Family structures, The only child, Happy families, Denial and disbelief, Breakdown a breakthrough, Out of the shadow, Secrets in the family, Resolution, ENDNOTES
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.03.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | St Albans |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 148 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-912243-65-2 / 1912243652 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-912243-65-5 / 9781912243655 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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