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Dr. Pat Fosarelli

Whatever You Do to the Least of These introduces pastoral visitors, both ordained and non-ordained, to the main issues confronting children and adolescents of different ages when they are faced with illness, injury, or dying. It also highlights the issues faced by parents and siblings in these same circumstances.

Part I of this book focuses on the various developmental stages of young people from infancy to the late teens. Failure to understand these stages can result in confusion and humiliation for sick children and teens and embarrassment for pastoral visitors when expectations do not match reality.

Part II covers such special circumstances as chronic illness, mental illness, devastating injurines, coma, burns, and terminal disease.

This forthright treatment of the sensitive and often inexplicable realities of illness and dying among children and teens is a must for all those engaged in pastoral care, as well as doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Parents, relatives, and friends of ill and dying children will also rely on this unique guide to help them understand what their loved ones are going through developmentally at each age.

Dr. Fosarelli offers concrete advice on what to do and what not to do, as well as suggestions for prayers and services suitable for differing developmental levels and family needs.

Whatsoever You Do for the Least of These is one of the few books available for pastoral workers called upon to represent their churches at the bedsides of ill and dying children and adolescents.

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