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A picture book written to help children cope with a mother's breast cancer. Includes "testimonials" by animal characters in an imaginary support group, allowing each of them to talk about issues they are facing. The "narrators" describe how the family reacted to the diagnosis, meeting the doctors a…
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Includes principles for helping children; a passage to be read with a child; guidelines for responding to questions that might arise from the read-along section; and a list of resources.
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A story and activity book for children with loved ones facing cancer. This book provides a story for adults to read to children ages 3 (three) and up.
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Shows ways to use the healing arts to help grievers transcend loss.
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When the willow tree gets sick and nothing will make him well, his friends in the wood learn about death, and saying good-bye.
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The narrator remembers being a baby and being given a button blanket by Aunt Mary. Aunt Mary comes to live with the family when the narrator is five and she is seriously ill and dying. She sings a song to the young child who is afraid of death but does not understand its meaning. After the death of…
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Shows how to support the person who is ill and how the caregiver can handle his/her own emotions.
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The author describes the dying process and provides practical, concrete suggestions for bringing a degree of comfort to the dying individual. His advice is illustrated with many brief, descriptive vignettes of actual cases covering a wide spectrum of ages, personalities, family situations, and resp…
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The author offers fellow widows, as well as their family and friends, advice for coping with the loss of a husband.
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Includes a section on Native American/First Nations beliefs, medicine wheel, and totme animal spiritis.
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A storybook and task-oriented activity book specifically designed for children with cancer (ages 7-11). Children who are diagnosed with cancer must face a series of overwhelming hurdles; physical, psychological and social. Everyone with the child can play an essential role in minimizing the trauma…
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Each section is divided by an illustration to encourage centring and meditation. For those who do not wish to write, blank sections can be used for photographs, drawings, dried flowers, clippings etc.
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The author explains what emotions to expect when mourning, what pitfalls to avoid, and how to work through feelings of loss.
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A coloring book specifically designed to assist children with cancer (ages 3-6) and those who care about them in coping with the crisis brought on by a life-threatening illness. This book is intended to be given to the hospitalized child as early as possible.
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A book about death and grief with a religious background and message.
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