Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I: Issues in Clinical Management -- 1. Children's Understanding of Death -- 2. Pain and Symptom Management -- 3. Psychosocial Aspects of Serious Illness in Childhood and Adolescence: Curse or Challenge? -- 4. Caring for Children with Life-Limiting Illness and Their Families: Focus on Pediatric Hospice Nursing -- 5. Neonatal Death -- 6. Care for the Child with HIV Infection and AIDS -- II: Support Systems -- 7. Caring for Bereaved Parents -- 8. After a Child Dies: Helping the Siblings -- 9. Spiritual Care of Children and Parents -- 10. Staff Support in Pediatric Hospice Care -- 11. Unpaid Staff: The Volunteer Component -- 12. Lessons in Grief: A Practical Look at School Programs -- 13. Therapeutic Play and Creative Arts: Helping Children Cope with Illness, Death, and Grief -- 14. The Primary Care Physician's Role -- III: Different Contexts, Different Lessons -- 15. Learning from One Another: Lessons from Pediatrics for Palliative Care -- 16. Palliative Care in an Inpatient Hospital Setting -- 17. Ethical Decision Making at the End of Life -- 18. Incorporating Children in an Adult Hospice Program -- 19. Death-Related Literature for Children and Adolescents: Selected, Annotated, and with Guidelines and Resources for Adults -- Appendix -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.