The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children
Treating Children with Complicated Mourning and Advice for Parents
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2000
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-89503-205-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amityville
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89503-205-8 (9780895032058)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
James. A. Fogarty
The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children
Treating Children with Complicated Mourning and Advice for Parents
E-Book
10/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
€172.99
Available for download
James. A. Fogarty
The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children
Treating Children with Complicated Mourning and Advice for Parents
E-Book
10/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
€172.99
Available for download
James. A. Fogarty
The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children
Treating Children with Complicated Mourning and Advice for Parents
Book
06/2000
1st Edition
Baywood Publishing Company Inc
€178.56
Article not available at the moment
Person
James A. Fogarty, Ed .D, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Certified School Psychologist
Content
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Children's View of Grief
How to be an Expert in the Eyes of Children
A New Look at the Normal Grief Emotions of Children
The Normal Grief Emotions
The Numb and Stunned Reaction * Commotion * Attempts to Re-create Coupled with Balancing Denial * Anguish * Anger *
Guilt
Summary
Chapter 2 - Cognition: The Most Definitive Feature of Children's Grief
To Bond or Not to Bond? * Imitation * Concrete Thinking * The Onset of Abstract Reasoning * Adolescence-Abstract
Thought Unleashed
Summary
Chapter 3 - The Model of Magical Thought
What is Magical Thought? * The Model of Magical Thought: "Seeds for the Destruction of Children's Personality Development"
* Key Definitions for the Model of Magical Thought
Summary
Chapter 4 - The Tasks of Mourning Distorted by Destructive Magical Thought
The Five Tasks of Healthy Mourning * Complicated Mourning * Therese Rando's Six "R" Response * Disenfranchised Grief *
Conversions from the Unhealthy Model of Magical Thought to the Tasks of Healthy Mourning
Summary
Chapter 5 - Action-Focused Techniques to Eliminate Destructive Magical Thought
Action-Focused Techniques Defined * Advantages of Action-Focused Techniques with Bereaved Children and Families * Five
Purposes of Action-Focused Techniques * The Interview Process * Parental Involvement * Examples of Action-Focused
Techniques Eliminating Magical Thought
Summary
Chapter 6 - Anger and Magical Thought
Prescription for Anger Management * Summary of a Plan of Treatment for Anger Management
Chapter 7 - A Special Note for Parents
Chapter 8 - Magical Thought of Adults and Society
The Functions of Magical Thought of this Society * The Trickle Down Effect
Chapter 9 - Final Thoughts
References
Appendix A - Resources for Action-Focused Techniques
Index
Chapter 1 - Children's View of Grief
How to be an Expert in the Eyes of Children
A New Look at the Normal Grief Emotions of Children
The Normal Grief Emotions
The Numb and Stunned Reaction * Commotion * Attempts to Re-create Coupled with Balancing Denial * Anguish * Anger *
Guilt
Summary
Chapter 2 - Cognition: The Most Definitive Feature of Children's Grief
To Bond or Not to Bond? * Imitation * Concrete Thinking * The Onset of Abstract Reasoning * Adolescence-Abstract
Thought Unleashed
Summary
Chapter 3 - The Model of Magical Thought
What is Magical Thought? * The Model of Magical Thought: "Seeds for the Destruction of Children's Personality Development"
* Key Definitions for the Model of Magical Thought
Summary
Chapter 4 - The Tasks of Mourning Distorted by Destructive Magical Thought
The Five Tasks of Healthy Mourning * Complicated Mourning * Therese Rando's Six "R" Response * Disenfranchised Grief *
Conversions from the Unhealthy Model of Magical Thought to the Tasks of Healthy Mourning
Summary
Chapter 5 - Action-Focused Techniques to Eliminate Destructive Magical Thought
Action-Focused Techniques Defined * Advantages of Action-Focused Techniques with Bereaved Children and Families * Five
Purposes of Action-Focused Techniques * The Interview Process * Parental Involvement * Examples of Action-Focused
Techniques Eliminating Magical Thought
Summary
Chapter 6 - Anger and Magical Thought
Prescription for Anger Management * Summary of a Plan of Treatment for Anger Management
Chapter 7 - A Special Note for Parents
Chapter 8 - Magical Thought of Adults and Society
The Functions of Magical Thought of this Society * The Trickle Down Effect
Chapter 9 - Final Thoughts
References
Appendix A - Resources for Action-Focused Techniques
Index