Healing After Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence provides a welcome addition to the therapeutic literature in an area that affects many children, adolescents, and even adults but that does not always get as much attention as it deserves.

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

This thoughtful and compassionate book provides invaluable insights into the therapeutic process for facilitating healing for young people who lose a parent. Guided by a psychodynamic perspective, the book does a wonderful job of integrating theory and clinical material. The cases are presented in a powerful and poignant fashion and bring to life the complex phenomenology of this traumatic loss as well as strategies for enabling diverse children and adolescents to progress developmentally in an adaptive way after their parent dies.

Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, Emory University

This is one of those rare books that clinicians will return to many times over for insight, wisdom, and comfort in their work with grieving children, adolescents, and adults. The individual contributions are noteworthy for the depth of exploration of the complexities of mourning the death of a parent, whether anticipated or unexpected. The breadth of the clinical material and the contributors’ thoughtful approaches to this difficult work strikingly demonstrate that, in this exemplary case, the whole is truly greater than the sum of its impressive parts.

Toni V. Heineman, PhD, A Home Within

The editors have brought together a moving collection of clinically deep and sensitive papers about loss and mourning in childhood and adolescence. So often, even as children struggle with their own confusion, despair, and sadness, they also show the adults around them how to mourn if only we would stop and listen. These remarkable essays, each beautifully giving voice to children’s stories in the face of loss, calls all of us to pause and listen, look within ourselves, and embrace those memories and stories our children create.

Linda C. Mayes, MD, Yale Child Study Center