Mental illness and suicide are difficult topics to talk about, and with teenagers it is even more difficult, yet each year mental illness and suicide is affecting more and more people.
What the dog saw, by Mark Worthing is written with adolscents and teens in mind. It is the story of his own son as seen through the eyes of his dog of the long, slow tragedy of mental illness, and of suicide. It is the story he wrote a year after his son's death to help his younger brother and sister to find away to remember their brother and talk about grief.
The book is a short book of 74 pages, with 44 easy to read chapters of 1 or 2 pages, each concluding with sentence to encourage reflection. There are also suggestions on how the book could be used with children and teenagers.
Mark Worthing is a Lutheran pastor, lecturer and author living in Australia
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