Overview

The book demonstrates the hopeful stance the young take in response to ordinary suffering and significant trauma when adults talk with them about their losses. Its underlying themes convey the truth that loss and recovery are normal in the process of growing to maturity. It examines the strength of the child’s capacity for resilience through partnerships with adults who allow children to focus on the loss and tell the story of its meaning to someone who really hears it. The authors agree that adults need to perceive their own losses so that their attentiveness to the young is informed by wisdom that comes through self-understanding, but also agree that many adults do not offer that help to children because they believe it will make matters worse. The book reveals this fear as a false notion by dealing with childhood traumas such as acquired disability, warfare, HIV/AIDS, death of one’s parents and cultural dislocation. The authors are experienced practitioners who provide practical and theoretical insight into the dynamics of loss and recovery. The book offers hope for those who live and work with children and youth through its studied approach to addressing loss by describing young people’s potential to work towards wholeness even in the face of fundamental losses to their security. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Children's Spirituality.

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Author:   Joyce Bellous (McMaster Divinity College, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780415551366

ISBN 10:   0415551366
Pages:   114
Publication Date:   21 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Joyce E. Bellous 2. We are all affected: considering the recovery of HIV/AIDS infected and affected children Carla Nelson 3. Resilience and recovery Jean Clinton 4. An afflicted waiting Denise A. Peltomaki 5. Pastor Emile’s children Emile Desmond Ebun Sam-Peal 6. Linking spirituality, school communities, grief and well-being Louise Rowling 7. Living and dying: a window on (Christian) children’s spirituality Elaine Champagne 8. Exploring trauma, loss and healing: spirituality, Te Whariki and early childhood education Jane Bone 9. Grief and loss: towards an existential phenomenology of child spirituality David A. Walters 10. Spirituality, loss and recovery in children with disabilities David V. Erickson

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