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Adolescent Development and Bereavement: An Introduction
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Balk, David E. – Prevention Researcher, 2011
In order to provide the best support possible to grieving youth it is important to understand how bereavement impacts adolescent development and how adolescent development impacts bereavement. In this article, prominent youth bereavement author, David Balk, explores these two key components focusing on cognitive, behavioral, and affective…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Grief, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes
A Modest Proposal about Bereavement and Recovery
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Balk, David E. – Death Studies, 2008
The author argues that the term "recovery" aptly describes the trajectory following the bereavement of most persons. While the term "resilience" has gained ascendancy in the thanatology literature and the term "recovery" has been dismissed as inappropriate to denote responses over time to being bereaved, the irony is that all dictionaries of the…
Descriptors: Grief, Death, Definitions, Coping
Grieving: 22 to 30 Percent of All College Students
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Balk, David E. – New Directions for Student Services, 2008
At any given time, 22 to 30 percent of college undergraduates are in the first twelve months of grieving the death of a family member or friend. This conclusion, startling to some but accepted by others, comes from a variety of sources at academic sites in the United States and Europe. Information about the prevalence rate resulted from clinical…
Descriptors: College Students, Grief, Incidence, Foreign Countries