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My parent has cancer and it really sucks / Marc Silver, Maya Silver.

by Silver, Marc, 1951-

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Sourcebooks Fire, c2013.

Children of cancer patients.

Cancer -- Psychological aspects.

261 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and Internet resources.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The News -- 1.1.A Hunch -- 1.2.Why Your Parents Told You the Way They Did -- 1.3.Why You Reacted the Way You Did -- 1.4.A Charged Word -- ch. 2 Cancer 101 -- 2.1.The Big Question Marks -- 2.2.Treatments and Their Side Effects -- 2.3.The Cure: Why Isn't There One Yet? -- 2.4.True or False -- 2.5.Tell Me More! -- ch. 3 Let's Talk: How to Keep Your Family Communication Lines Wide Open -- 3.1.How Much Do You Want to Know? -- 3.2.What If You're Out of the Loop? -- 3.3.Reality Check: How Far in the Know Can You Go? -- 3.4.How to Keep Talking...Even If It's in Writing -- ch. 4 How Things Will Change During Cancer -- 4.1.Teenage Change Is Normal! -- 4.2.Cancer Sneaking Up on You -- 4.3.Changes to Expect -- 4.4.Changes in Your Parent -- 4.5.Siblings -- 5.Parentification -- 5.1.How It Happens -- 5.2.Catching a Break -- 5.3.Silence Isn't Golden -- 5.4.The Big Picture -- ch. 6 Dealing with Stress -- 6.1.How to Beat the Cancer Blues --

Contents note continued: 6.2.Exploring the Options -- ch. 7 Risky Business -- 7.1.Former Bad Boys: Gary and Jose Turn It Around -- 7.2.Former Bad Girls: True Confessions -- ch. 8 The Power (And The Limits) of Optimism and Faith -- 8.1.Think Positive -- 8.2.Faith and Spirituality -- ch. 9 The Benefit of Friends -- 9.1.What You Do (and Don't) Want from Your Friends -- 9.2.Girls Are from Mercury, Boys Are from Neptune -- 9.3.Accepting Help -- 9.4.Have Fun with Your Friends If You Can -- 9.5.But Can They Still Come Over? -- 9.6.Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, and More -- 9.7.Dealing with Friend Problems -- 9.8.New Friends -- ch. 10 School Daze -- 10.1.School = More Stress or a Place to Escape? -- 10.2.To Announce or Not to Announce -- 10.3.Telling the School -- 10.4.How the School Can Help -- 10.5.Dilemmas, Dilemmas -- 10.6.Keeping Grades Up -- 10.7.The Need to Achieve -- 10.8.Pulling a Bueller -- ch. 11 Seeking Support -- 11.1.The Adult Who Knows You --

Contents note continued: 11.2.Seeing a Therapist -- 11.3.Group Support -- ch. 12 Facing a Dire Prognosis -- 12.1.Facing the News -- 12.2.How Long Do We Have? -- 12.3.When the Bad News Isn't All Bad -- 12.4.Finding Hope When Things Seem Hopeless? -- 12.5.Living for the Moment -- 12.6.A Different Kind of Hope -- 12.7.What If You Feel Closer to the Parent with Cancer? -- 12.8.Avoidance -- 12.9.Making Memories -- ch. 13 Losing a Parent to Cancer -- 13.1.A Dictionary of Emotions -- 13.2.Mourning Doesn't Come with an Expiration Date -- 13.3.All Kinds of Questions -- 13.4.Life Goes On -- 13.5.Dealing with Your Emotions -- 13.6.School Can Be a Comfort...or a Pain -- 13.7.Music Can Make It Better -- 13.8.Staying Connected -- ch. 14 The New Normal: Life after Cancer -- 14.1.What Happens Now? -- 14.2.New Normal Hiccups and Surprises -- 14.3.Struggling in the Aftermath -- 14.4.Becoming an Activist -- 14.5.Same Old You -- 14.6.Silver Linings.

My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks allows teens to see that they are not alone. That no matter how rough things get, they will get through this difficult time. That everything they're feeling is ok. Essays from Gilda Radner's "Gilda's Club" annual contest are an especially poignant and moving testimony of how other teens dealt with their family's situation. Collects stories and advice from over one hundred teens who have dealt with a parent battling cancer.

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