Baxter, Grant, & Stuart, Wendy. Death and the Adolescent: a Resource Handbook for Bereavement Support Groups in Schools - Book Review

Adolescence, Summer, 2003

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 120pp. $30(h), $19.95(p)

The death of a loved one can create special challenges for adolescents. This manual provides information, guidelines, and suggestions for parents, teachers, and other caregivers in helping teenagers who have lost a parent, sibling, or close friend through death. Drawing on their own extensive experience as bereavement counsellors, the authors explain in detail how to conduct a bereavement support group for adolescents. In addition they examine problems typically encountered by bereaved teens, and provide clinical case studies that show a range of grieving patterns. The book includes a description of the mourning and funeral rites practiced by a variety of religious and ethnic groups, and concludes with a bibliography and a list of community resources.