After a Parent’s Suicide: Helping Children Heal focuses on how to help children and teens in the aftermath of a parent’s suicide. The book provides an overview of current thinking/research on suicide and explores the increased risk of mental health issues for child survivors. In addition to information about how children grieve at different developmental levels, it also offers comfort to the bereaved, specific coping strategies for families facing this trauma, and insight into what promotes resiliency.
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.."suberb explanations of how to explain suicide to children...and how to help them return to normalcy. Highly recommended." --Library Journal, April 2006
"Extraordinary...teeming with ideas to guide caregivers as they help children grow through the heartache of their loss." --Karen Dunne-Maxim, R.N., M.S. - Past President, American Association of Suicidology and Co-editor: Suicide and Its Aftermath: Understanding and Counseling the Survivors
"Thoughtful and scholarly, yet easy to read - recommended to parents, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and educators." --Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D. - Professor, Emory University SChool of Medicine, AFSP National Board of Directors
"Extraordinary...teeming with ideas to guide caregivers as they help children grow through the heartache of their loss." --Karen Dunne-Maxim, R.N., M.S. - Past President, American Association of Suicidology and Co-editor: Suicide and Its Aftermath: Understanding and Counseling the Survivors
"Thoughtful and scholarly, yet easy to read - recommended to parents, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and educators." --Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D. - Professor, Emory University SChool of Medicine, AFSP National Board of Directors
About the Author
Margo Requarth is a licensed marriage and family psychotherapist and the Child/Teen Bereavement Program Coordinator for Sutter VNA & Hospice in Santa Rosa, CA where she also leads groups for adult survivors of suicide. She is on the Northern CA board of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and lives in Sebastopol, CA.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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As a nurse, a survivor of the loss of my son by suicide and facilitator of a survivor of suicide loss support group for the last 15 years, I find this book one of the best I have found over the years. It is beautifully written and is an excellent resource, especially for helping children deal with the death of a parent by suicide. It is also an excellent resource for anyone dealing with any loss of a loved one by suicide, be it parent, child, sibling, spouse, partner, friend. The author through her own personal loss of a parent by suicide and her professional experience of many years as a Marriage and Family Therapist, has written a gem to assist people move through the grief and devastation of a suicide death. I highly recommend the book for parents, mental health professionals, support group facilitators, educators, clergy, caregivers and friends.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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This book is just what the caregiver of a child, who has lost one of the most important people in their life, needs. I know this because I lost my husband to suicide when my kids were very young. There are so many questions that we must be prepared to answer, often at the least expected moment. The stories are compelling and give insight to what a child may experience at every age. Ms. Requarth's background in grief therapy, woven with her own personal struggle growing up without her birthmother, make this a truly unique guide for navigating the shoals of childhood and adolescence in the aftermath of a parent's suicide. I am particularly pleased that the author aptly addresses the feelings and needs of the surviving parent.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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After A Parent's Suicide is an easy and comforting read for anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one to suicide. Requarth helps answer the question "What to say to the kids?" and offers helpful information on how to explain suicide to children. The author clearly describes the grieving process of children and adolescents and provides tips on how to help them cope.Crossing 13
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This book is so helpful not only for children but for adults also. Hope you don`t need this book but if you do it is the go to book. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Janice Perez
fabulous resource
Margo Requarth is a deep and thorough writer who compassionately outlines the difficulties that families confront when they lose a parent to suicide. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Nancy Rappaport
After a parent suicide.
Excellent book....I have three grandchildren ages 12, 11 and 9...there father commited suicide and this book gave us great insight on how to handle each child. Read more
Published on September 16, 2008 by D. Talbott
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When I was nine months old, my mother, six months pregnant with my brother, contracted a rare mystery illness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bereaved child, bipolar illness, bereavement counselor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Golden Gate Bridge, Father's Day, Uncle Bill, United States, Mother's Day, Suicide Prevention Action Network New!
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When I was nine months old, my mother, six months pregnant with my brother, contracted a rare mystery illness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bereaved child, bipolar illness, bereavement counselor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Golden Gate Bridge, Father's Day, Uncle Bill, United States, Mother's Day, Suicide Prevention Action Network New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison on page 196, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One by Carla Fine on page 14, and Back Matter
- The Spiritual Life of Children by Robert Coles on page 109, and Back Matter
- My Life So Far by Jane Fonda on page 218, and Back Matter
- The Spiritual Life (Ecco Companions) by Albert Schweitzer on page 109, and Back Matter
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