In this comprehensive handbook, Charles Corr and David Balk improve our understanding of the challenges faced by adolescents when coping with death, dying, and bereavement.The volume is organized into three parts.Part I addresses specific issues involved in confrontations with death.Part II focuses on the role of bereavement.Part III explains specific therapeutic interventions for caregivers.The authors introduce us to adolescence as a special time in the human life cycle, a period quite separate from childhood and adulthood.They establish normative adolescents, and explain developmental tasks that are typical of early, middle, and late adolescence.