Helping Children with Ill or Disabled Parents

A Guide for Parents and Professionals

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

When a parent falls ill or becomes disabled, the pressures placed on family, relations and friends can be very great. Children, in particular, are sometimes forgotten as the adults struggle to cope, yet often have to endure enormous anxiety. The authors, with compassion and common sense, look at the range of issues that can arise, including guilt, anger, frustration and fear. They suggest positive ways in which these can be approached, as well as looking at:* what children need to know and when they should be told* issues of dependence, separation and independence* what issues emerge when other adults are involved* the role of teachers and schools* the sense of responsiblity commonly felt by the child* how to help with thoughts and feelings.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-09-01
Mått:157 x 234 x 95 mm
Vikt:384 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN:9781853024092

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Julia Segal trained with the Marriage Guidance Council (now Relate) and has been counselling people with MS, their relatives and their children for the past ten years, first as Research Counsellor for Action and Research for Multiple Sclerosis and presently as Counsellor for the CMH MS Unit, Central Middlesex Hospital, London. She has three children and is the author of Phantasy in Everyday Life: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Understanding Ourselves (Karnac 1995) and Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Melanie Klein (Sage1992). John Simkins was the Chief Executive of Action and Research for Multiple Sclerosis (ARMS) for sixteen years. Since then he has been working as an Executive with the charity Multiple Sclerosis Research Centre. He has two children and one step-child, all of whom had a parent with MS.

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There is some particularly pertinent advice for schools. Some is very practical, focusing for example, on the need for schools to be accessible for parents with mobility problems so that they are able to fulfill normal parental roles at school functions. Other advice is more child-orientated, reminding us all that the child may need space to be alone sometimes. There is a very useful chapter including hints on how to talk to a child. The real merit of the book has to lie in its empahsis on diversity, the multitude of ways in which children cope with a parent's illness. The book offers a useful insight into the world of the child caring for a parent; it makes valuable reading for all those involved with children in this way. As such, it would make a specially useful addition to a staff library.'

Innehållsförteckning

PART I: ISSUES AND VIEWS 1. How Parents See It 2. Some Children 3. Martin: Working with Loss and Change 4. How Children See It 5. Who Am I? Dependence, Separation and Independence 5. Housework 7. Aggression and Control PART II: OFFERING HELP 8. Who Can Help? 9. What can Parents Do? 10. Helping and Being Helped by Other People 10. Help with Thoughts and Feelings 12. How can Adults Talk to Children? 13. What Should Adults Tell Children? 14. The Death of a Parent