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Death and Dying, Life and Living Links and Biblio: 
Children, Adolescents, Living with Life-Threatening Illness;
Children, Adolescents and Dying

D&D Biblio Individual Sections Links |

See also Caregiving, Children and Grief, Grief, Life Threatening Illnesses; Loss of a Child; Loss of a Sibling; Rituals; Schools/Education.

Adams, David W. and Eleanor J. Deveau. Beyond the Innocence of Childhood. 3 vols. Baywood, 1995.  Vol. 1:  Factors Influencing Children and Adolescents' Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Death.  Vol. 2:  Helping Children Cope with Life-Threatening Illness and Dying.  Vol. 3:  Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Death and Bereavement.

Anspach, Renee.  Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive Care Nursery.  Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1993.

Armstrong-Dailey, Ann and Sarah Zarbock, eds.  Hospice Care for Children.  2001.

Ashton, Joyce with Dennis Asthton.  Loss and Grief Recovery:  Help Caring for Children with disabilities, Chronic, or Terminal Illness.  1996.

Barton, Betsey.  And Now To Live Again.  1944. (16 year old whose back was broken in a car accident)

Bearison, David J.  They Never Want to Tell You:  Children Talk About Cancer.  1999

Bluebond-Langner, Myra.  In the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child.  Princeton UP, 1996 BF789 .D4 B635 1996

Cacciatore-Garard, Joanne.  Dear Cheyenne:  A Book for Bereaved Parents and For Those Who Love Them.  5th ed. 2002.

Cacciatore, Joanne.  The Power of Compassion: A Phenomenological Approach to Child Death.  MISS Foundation, 2002.

Carter, Brian S., Marcia Levetown, eds.  Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents:  A Practical Handbook. 2004 

Corr, Charles A. and David E. Balk, eds.  Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement.  NY: Springer, 1996.

Corr, Charles A. and Donna M. Corr, eds.  Handbook of Childhood Death and Bereavement.  NY: Springer, 1996.

Davies, Betty.  Shadows in the Sun:  The Experience of Sibling Bereavement in Childhood.  Washington, D. C.: Taylor and Francis, 1998.

DeFord, Frank.  Alex: The Life of a Child.  1983 (Cystic Fibrosis)  PQ2603 .E362 M613 1973

Dougy Center, The.  Helping Children Cope with Death.  1997.

Dougy Center, The.  Helping Teens Cope with Death.  rev. 2004

Dougy Center, The.  What About the Kids? Understanding Their Needs in Funeral Planning & Services.  1999.

Fadiman, Anne.  The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down:  A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures.  1997.

Field, Marilyn and Richard E.  Berhman, eds.  When Children Die:  Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families.  2002.

Gaes, Jason.  My Book for Kids with Cansur: A Child's Autobiography of Hope.  1987.

Graham-Berman, Sandra A. and Jeffrey L. Edleson.  Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children. 2001.  HQ784.V55 D65 2001.

Grollman, Earl and Joy Johnson.  A Teenager's Book About Suicide:  Helping Break the Silence and Preventing Death.  A Centering Corporation Resource.  2001.

Harper, Jeanne M.  Hurting Yourself:  For Young People Who Have Attempted Suicide or Intentionally Injured Themselves.  A Centering Corporation Resource.

Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker.  A Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care For Them.  NY: W.W. Norton, 2000.

Hawton, Keith.  Suicide and Attempted Suicide Among Children and Adolescents.  1986.  HV6546.H39 1986

Hayman, Laura L.  Chronic Illness in Children:  An Evidence-Based Approach.  2002.  RJ380 .C5875 2002

Hilden, Joanne and Karen Lindsay: 
Shelter from the Storm:  Caring for a Child with a Life Threatening Condition.  2002

Hollinger, Paul C.  Suicide and Homicide Among Adolescents.  1994.  HV6546 .S833 1994.

Housden, Maria.  Hannah's Gift:  Lessons from a Life Fully Lived.  2002 (cancer)

Janes-Hodder, Honna and Nancy Keene.  Childhood Cancer:  A Parent’s Guide to Solid Tumor Cancers.  2002.

Kadohata, Cynthia.  Kira-Kira.  2004.  (novel about a Japanese American girl who loses a sister to lymphoma)

Keene, Nancy.  Childhood Leukemia:  A Guide for Famillies, Friends, and Caregivers. 3rd ed. 2002. 

Keene, Nancy, Wendy Hobbie, Kathy Ruccione, and Linda Lamb, eds.  Childhood Cancer Survivors:  A Practical Guide to Your Future. 2nd ed. 2002

Kelly, Katherine and Mark Totten.  When Children Kill:  A Social-Psychological Study of Youth Homicide. 2002.  HV9067 .H6 K42 2002

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth.  On Children and Death. 1983.  BF723 .D3 K827 1985.

King, Robert A. and Alan Apter.  Suicide in Children and Adolescents.  2003.  RJ506.S9 S86 2003.

O'Toole, Donna.  Growing Through Grief.  A K-12 Curriculum to Help Young People Through All Kinds of Loss.  1999.

Peterkin, Allan D.  and Frances Middendorf.  What About Me?  When Brothers and Sisters Get Sick.  1992 Ages 5-8

Peterson, Jerrie.  Heartworks: A Man Shares His Journey Through the Circle of Life:  A Father's Grief.  2004.

Rickgarn, Ralph L. V.  Perspectives on College Student Suicide.  Death, Value and Meaning Series.  1994.

Shiminski-Maher, Maria Sansalone and Patsy McGuire Cullen.  Childhood Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors:  A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers.  2001.

Silverman, Phyllis Rolfe.  Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives.  NY: Oxford UP, 2000.  BF723 .D3 S58 2000

Slaby, A. & L. F. Garfinkel.  No One Saw My Pain:  Why Teens Kill Themselves.  1996.

Sourkes, Barbara M. Armfuls of Time: The Psychological Experience of the Child with a Life-Threatening Illness.  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Trickett, Penelope K. and Cynthia J. Schellenbach, eds.  Violence Against Children in the Family and the Community.  1998.  HQ784 .V55 V48 1998

Woznick, Leigh A. and Carol D. Goodheart.  Living with Childhood Cancer:  A Practical Guide to Help Families Cope.  2001.

Children with AIDS:  http://www.aidskids.org/

National SIDS Resource Center:  http://www.sidscenter.org

American Academy of Pediatrics/Palliative Care for Children: http://www.aap.org/policy/re0007.html

Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Project:  http://www.yellowribbon.org/