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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9781425102623
ISBN number: 142510262X
Label: Trafford Publishing
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Page Count: 24
Printing Date: October 17, 2006
Publishing house: Trafford Publishing
Age index: Ages 4-8
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In the United States suicide is the third leading cause of death for those between the ages of 10 and 24 and the second leading cause of death for American college students.
The children's book, My Uncle Keith Died describes the symptoms of depression. It also helps children understand why a depressed person may not seek help. By reading Cody's questions and his mother's answers about his uncle's death, young readers will learn what to do if someone they know shows signs of depression. Early detection, intervention, and treatment for depression are critical for preventing suicides.
Included is a discusion guide written by Julianne Cosentino, which will help parents and professionals deal with the type of questions children are likely to ask when their lives have been touched by suicide.
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Many grieving parents, family members, and even mental health professionals find it difficult to answer the questions of children whose loved ones have taken their own lives. Thankfully, Carol Loehr's book
"My Uncle Keith Died" addresses these questions in a sensitive, compassionate, and honest way. A young boy named Cody learns about depression and how to help someone with depression. Also, there is a discusion guide that will help parents and professionals with questions children may ask. I highly recommend this book.
Ann Dumont, LMHC
Left Behind After Suicide Support Groups
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This book ia wonderful tribute to and Uncle whom we all should have known. Explaining death to children is difficult at best but when a person has died at their own hand it is doubly difficult. The illustrations in the book are beautiful and the discusion guide is helpful for any parent or teacher. This book should be available in every school library in the English speaking world. God bless Keith's mother Carol for sharing Keith and the results of undiagnosed depression with the world. Dr. Gloria Horsley Host of Healing The Grieving Heart archived on [...]
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When a family member or close friend dies by suicide, the wake left behind is indescribable. The pain, the grief, the guilt, and the "what ifs" become constant unshakable realities which fade over time but never seem to completely vanish. When my brother and very close friend who suffered from severe depression died of suicide 22 years ago at the age of 45, it was a crushing and overwhelming shock. A wonderful family, a wife and three children, were left to live through and somehow process this tragedy. If Carol Ann Loehr's book had been available then, it would have been a valuable resource for the children as well as the adults in our family.
Carol has managed to explain in very simple and understandable terms how severe depression is a leading cause of suicide. We are taken through this process with her grand nephew, Cody, who is featured as the catalyst in exploring why her son, Keith, died of suicide. She approaches this subject in a very sensitive, creative, and respectful fashion. The book is also excellently illustrated by James Mojonnier, and Julianne Cosentino contributes with a helpful Discusion Guide.
As one who has been there and knows the aftermath of suicide and the need for quality resources at such a time, I highly recommend this book to those who are struggling with the inevitable questions that come. It is very appropriately written for children and is an effective tool for adults as well. - Rev. Jeffrey E. Moody
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After I lost my brother to suicide, I remember trying to read everything I could get my hands on to try to help me understand how this could happen to him. I received phamphlets at the funeral home about "Suicide." There was nothing that even gave me a clue as to why I lost my brother to the devastating disease, depression. Carol's book helps to explore areas that have not been explored before. Written as a children's book, it is extremely helpful when trying to explain the unexplainable to children, but I must add, that it can help adults as well. I wish that someone had handed me this book after Terry died. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is trying to understand depression and suicide, young or old.
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I have a nonprofit dedicated to suicide prevention, intervention and grief support. Carol Loehr's insight into the devastating effect of depression is valuable to those who are struggling to understand the loss of a loved one to suicide. We have made her book available to the members of our suicide grief support group and consider it an important tool in our quest to understand.
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