The Child And Adolescent Literature About The Death Of A Parent

In recent years, death, dying, and bereavement have received increasing attention from psychoanalysts and from workers in related disciplines. The rapid increase in scientific and popular publications on death suggests that there is a change underway in our attitudes about death. It appears that we are starting to examine death and dying more realistically and that we allow ourselves more empathy with the dying and the bereaved (Furman, 1974).