Teen Book Review: The grieving teen: A guide for teenagers andtheir frends.
ISBN:
0684868040
ISBN-13:
9780684868042
Authors:Helen FitzGerald
THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE NOT CONTENT FROM THE BOOK BUTTHOUGHTS FROM THE BOOK
Recently many publishers have responded to the need for booksthat are designed to help adults discuss a difficult topic, death,with young children, and/or teens. You are to select one book (manyare on Amazon), written for teens, and evaluate it based on what wehave learned thus far in class.
1) Does it fit the social-emotional and cognitive developmentallevel for adequate death comprehension that is required for the agegroup for which it was marketed?
2) Is it honest, or do you think that it further perpetuates themyths around teens and their grief process?
3) Explore a bit: You are a clinician, asked to work with a teenin that age group. Teenagers are notoriously difficult to reach incounseling session...often because they are forced to attendsession by well-meaning adults. How would you,specifically, incorporate this book into a counselingsession? Is there enough there to start a conversation? Did itleave too many things vague and unanswered? What kinds of questionsdo you think it would raise for the teen? How would you, based onwhat you now know, answer them?
4) Edgar Jackson has written, \"Adolescents are apt to think thatthey are the discoverers of deep and powerful feelings and that noone has ever loved as they love.\" If this is true, whatimplications does it have for understanding and assisting bereavedadolescents?
