The Routledge International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief in Contemporary Contexts

This volume presents the leading research in child and adolescent grief from a diverse and global perspective, focusing on the systemic, political, and cultural processes that have a direct bearing on the way youth experience loss and grief. Carrie Traher and Lauren J. Breen bring together a global community of academics, practitioners, and social activists to discuss and address the complexity of lived experiences of grief for young people today. Presented in four parts, the contributors begin by providing a theoretical overview of youth, grief, and bereavement, before moving onto other important topics, such as suicide bereavement, the trauma of war, digital grief narratives, child soldiering, and more. Within each chapter, authors address contemporary theoretical frameworks, research findings, and praxis related to both death and non-death losses, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental grief, and grief on the internet and social media. Including contributors from a range of countries and from various disciplines, such as educators, health care professionals, policy makers, and advocates, the themes of coping, resilience, and growth are central and interwoven in each chapter. This handbook is essential for researchers, clinicians, scholars, educators, parents, and activists as to the most pressing societal and global issues that affect youth grief today and to provide context to their personal and professional interactions with youth. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Carrie Traher, PhD FT, is an Associate Professor of Thanatology at King's University College, London, Canada. Lauren J. Breen, PhD FT, is a Professor of Psychology at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.

Introduction Part I Section Summary: Introductory Considerations 1. Contemporary Perspectives on Childhood and Adolescence in a Global Context 2. Disenfranchised Youth Within a Global Context 3. Death and Non-death Losses: Youth Grief in an Increasingly Volatile World 4. Culturally Competent Grief Counselling for Elementary School Students Part II Section Summary: Grief and Bereavement 5. Family Care in a Scottish ICU during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Issues a Young Person Would Like Us to Hear 6. Supporting Adolescents and Young People Through Death, Loss, and Grief in Botswana 7. "You Probably Won't Understand": The Grief of Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities 8. Social Formations of Pain and Suffering in a Nicaraguan Pediatric Hospital 9. Suicide Bereavement and Postvention Approaches for Young People in Scotland 10. Grief Among Refugee Youth: Reflections of a Social Counsellor 11. De-naturalizing Manufactured Loss: Building a Decolonial Paradigm for Understanding the Experiences of Indigenous Children and Youth 12. Child Soldiering, Loss, and Reintegration: Experiences of Former Female Child Soldiers in Uganda Part III Section Summary: Global Matters: Facing Life and Death 13. A Virtual Space for Us: How LGBTQ+ Youth Grieve Online 14. Going Upriver: Understanding Indigenous Youths' Unique Perspectives on Safety in the Context of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada 15. Living and Dying on the Street: Advocating for an End to Homelessness Through the Delivery of Palliative Care 16. A Roof Over Your Head is not a Home: Youth Homelessness in Canada 17. Global Trafficking/Sexual Exploitation of Youth: A Proposed Protocol for Grief and Traumatic Loss 18. Hope, Grief, Loss, and a Plethora of Feelings in Between: Lived Experiences of Teenage Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers in India 19. Global Perspectives on Youth Suicide: Saving the Next Generation 20. Palestinian Youth Loss: From Clinical to Sociopolitical Understandings 21. Children in Ukraine and the Trauma of War Part IV Section Summary: Loss as Growth and Resilience 22. Reflections on Supporting Children and Teens Who are Grieving 23. Using Technology to Assist Grieving Children During a Pandemic 24. The Impact of Gun Violence on Youth: From Thoughts and Prayers to Action 25. TikTok Memes of Grief: Playfulness and Dark Humour in Youth Digital Grief Narratives 26. #BlackLivesMatter and the African Diaspora in Australia 27. "It's How We're Leaving a Mark": Youth Coalition Combatting Islamophobia and Grief Activism 28. Climate Change and Youth: Grief, Loss, Trauma, and Action 29. The Children's Sensorium: Art, Play, and Mindfulness for Children's Wellbeing, Recovery, and Resilience