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Cover painting “Me and Daddy Holding Hands Looking at the Sky”
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Requarth, Margo.
After a parent’s suicide : helping children heal / by Margo Requarth.
p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-9777468-0-1
LCCN 2006920803
1. Children and death–Psychological aspects. 2. Suicide.
3. Suicide victims–Family relationships. 4. Bereavement in children.
5. Bereavement in adolescence. 6. Grief in children. 7. Grief in adolescence.
8. Children–Counseling of. 9. Teenagers–Counseling of.
I. Title.
BF723.D3R47 2006
155.937
CIP

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