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Coping with Crisis and Handicap

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Aubrey Milunsky

    1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
      Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Boston, USA
      Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Child Dying in the Hospital

    • Genevieve V. Foley
    Pages 1-10

  3. Care of the Dying Child at Home

    • Ida M. Martinson
    Pages 11-22

  4. The Bereaved Parent

    • Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
    Pages 23-36

  5. Where Was God?

    • Harold S. Kushner
    Pages 37-49

  6. The Clergyman’s Role in Grief Counseling

    • Earl A. Grollman
    Pages 51-59

  7. Care in Chronic Fatal Genetic Disease

    • Aubrey Milunsky
    Pages 61-77

  8. Explaining Death to Children

    • Earl A. Grollman
    Pages 79-100

  9. Coping with Suicide in the Family

    • J. William Worden
    Pages 101-111

  10. Treating the Person Confronting Death

    • Ned H. Cassem
    Pages 113-159

  11. Ethics and the Care of the Child with Terminal Illness

    • Robert M. Veatch
    Pages 161-175

  12. Kids Are People Too, Sometimes

    • George J. Annas
    Pages 177-188

  13. Coping with Handicap

    • John A. Carr
    Pages 189-204

  14. Helping Parents Cope with a Profoundly Mentally Retarded Child

    • Mary S. Challela
    Pages 205-215

  15. The Involvement of Siblings of Children with Handicaps

    • Allen C. Crocker
    Pages 217-228

  16. Reaching Autistic Children

    • Walter P. Christian
    Pages 229-248

  17. Coping with Sexuality and Sexual Vulnerability in Developmentally Disabled Individuals

    • Ludwik S. Szymanski
    Pages 249-267

  18. A Little Bit of Awkward

    • Alan J. Brightman
    Pages 269-280

  19. Teaching Teachers to Cope

    • Margaret A. O’Connor
    Pages 281-286

  20. Coping Strategies of Children and Their Families

    • Sue S. Cahners
    Pages 287-297
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About this book

For over 20 years I have accepted the challenge and had the privilege of caring for sick children, agonizing with their parents during periods of serious illness, which were sometimes fatal. Because of my particular interest in and concern about birth defects and genetic disease, many of these children had severe disabling handicaps, which were often genetic and included mental retardation. Hence care of these children and their families was often complicated by the presence of serious or profound genetic defects. The initial realization of the nature of the disorder invariably led to emotional . difficulties and inevitably later spawned chronic distress. For some children inexorable deterioration led to untimely deaths, while the parents agonized over their handi­ capped, chronically ill, or defective-but nevertheless loved---

Editors and Affiliations

  • Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Boston, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky

  • Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Coping with Crisis and Handicap

  • Editors: Aubrey Milunsky

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3231-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Aubrey Milunsky 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-3233-6Published: 08 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-3231-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 358

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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