Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 pr
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
