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My Dad Did Something Awful One Day. The Kids' Book About Suicide (Difficult Issues for Kids)

My Dad Did Something Awful One Day. The Kids' Book About Suicide (Difficult Issues for Kids)

Heather Moran
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The experience of parental suicide is usually very distressing and confusing for a child. This is a book for parents, therapists or counsellors to read with children affected by such a suicide. It is a story which gives a child's account their father's suicide. This provides a context for suicide by explaining symptoms of depression and takes the reader through the practical and emotional impact of parental suicide in the months after the event. The book uses a straightforward style to try combat the taboo associated with suicide and to help the child to understand and talk about their own experiences. There is a glossary which explains key vocabulary which is specific to this topic.

This book the first in the series Difficult Issues for Kids. The series will address subjects which are not often explained to children in books and all will be written from the child's viewpoint to help children to connect with the story. Each will be written a professional who with many years of experience of working with children with mental health problems. They will all be suitable for parents, therapists, psychologists, social workers and counsellors to read with children.

Heather Moran is a child clinical psychologist with 30 years experiences of working therapeutically with children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems.
Language
English
Pages
32
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Heather Moran
Release
December 16, 2013

My Dad Did Something Awful One Day. The Kids' Book About Suicide (Difficult Issues for Kids)

Heather Moran
0/5 ( ratings)
The experience of parental suicide is usually very distressing and confusing for a child. This is a book for parents, therapists or counsellors to read with children affected by such a suicide. It is a story which gives a child's account their father's suicide. This provides a context for suicide by explaining symptoms of depression and takes the reader through the practical and emotional impact of parental suicide in the months after the event. The book uses a straightforward style to try combat the taboo associated with suicide and to help the child to understand and talk about their own experiences. There is a glossary which explains key vocabulary which is specific to this topic.

This book the first in the series Difficult Issues for Kids. The series will address subjects which are not often explained to children in books and all will be written from the child's viewpoint to help children to connect with the story. Each will be written a professional who with many years of experience of working with children with mental health problems. They will all be suitable for parents, therapists, psychologists, social workers and counsellors to read with children.

Heather Moran is a child clinical psychologist with 30 years experiences of working therapeutically with children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems.
Language
English
Pages
32
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Heather Moran
Release
December 16, 2013

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