title: A prevention program for bereaved children.
abstract: The death of a parent seriously threatens children's social and emotional development. When the death can be anticipated, early intervention may facilitate children's adjustment. A prevention program designed to enable parents to foster their children's necessary grief work and resolution of the loss is described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Work, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Siegel
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Mesagno
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Christ
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D002667:Child Reactive Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010333:Paternal Deprivation; D012944:Social Support; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology