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The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children: Treating Children with Complicated Mourning and Advice for Parents
James A. Fogarty
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Death, Value and Meaning Series, John D. Morgan, Series Editor
IN PRAISE OF
"This book will be an important contributor to the child's valid claim
to join the ranks of the bereaved and for all of us–especially parents–who
can and must walk with them or otherwise leave them to find their way into
a snare of complications. . . .Fogarty brings us the latest thinking
about children and teens. We have learned some things over the years, especially
at how "well" we do socially in denying children's need to grieve (and
thus access to healthy mourning). The book gives credible data and important
instructions. We receive carefully stated warnings that, by the very nature
of their age and the lack of clear and useful support, children are at
the greatest risk for complicated experiences."
—Rev. Richard B. Gilbert, BCC, Resources Hotline, A Service of the World Pastoral Center
"It is an excellent text that offers great value for both caregivers
and parents working with grieving children."
—Gerry R. Cox, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book is designed for clinicians, educators,
clergy, and nurses—anyone who is assisting children who have experienced
the death of a loved one. This work offers a unique framework for helping
children heal from the wounds created by the life process of death, a framework
that has its defining basis in children's magical thought. Magical thought
is motivated by the desire of a child with incomplete cognitive equipment
to understand his world. Magical thought helps children develop inaccurate
conclusions about many aspects of death and their own personal grief, often
suggesting that they or someone else is responsible for the loss.
This book describes how children's grief-related
magical thoughts can progress with cognitive distortions, developing into
defense mechanisms, and finally to personality disorders. Therapists who
understand the concept of magical thought can easily define grieving children's
clinical issues by pursuing children's inaccurate magical thoughts. Treatment
offers many interactive therapeutic techniques that bring children back
to truthful thoughts. This book is especially helpful with children experiencing
complicated mourning.
This study on children's magical thought offers many
interactive healing techniques, including the development of safe spots,
the design of a children's therapy office, the use of psychodrama and sculpturing,
prescribed therapy, correcting distorted death stories, recognizing the
special reaction cues of childhood, and reducing the development of personality
disorders by eliminating distorted magical thought. In addition, this work
is designed to help therapists and parents to unite to assist grieving
children.
Intended Audience: Social workers,
psychologists, nurses, marital and family therapists, hospice workers,
chaplains, teachers, school psychologists, school social workers, school
counselors, crisis interventionists, parent organizations, state and local
organizations, parents of children who are experiencing complicated mourning.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. James A. Fogarty, Ed.D. is a Clinician, Licensed Clinical Psychologist,
Certified School Psychologist, National Lecturer and Author on the topic
of children's grief and bereavement. He is in private practice as he owns
and operates Fogarty Consulting Firm, which is dedicated to helping children
and families with grief and bereavement.
Dr. Fogarty is a national lecturer with the American Academy of Bereavement.
He has been actively offering grief counseling for twenty years with children
and families. In his clinical practice he has offered consultation to psychiatric
hospitals, peer support groups, group psychotherapy for grief issues, and
consultation and training to hospices, funeral homes, education facilities,
and hospitals.
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