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“Burns provides an excellent, user-friendly guide to help school personnel navigate the tricky waters of children's grief. This is a welcome resource for school professionals.”
—Steve Hoff, Licensed Psychologist
Great Barrington, MA
“The author's sensitivity and understanding of cultural variations in reaction to loss provide a much needed perspective to this important topic.”
—Heta-Maria Miller, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology
The College of Saint Rose
Help students deal with grief and loss in appropriate, healthy ways.
Most students experience some form of loss in their lives, and the resulting grief can profoundly affect their academic performance, emotional stability, and social interactions. Serving both as a resource and workbook, this reader-friendly primer helps educators and school counselors understand and respond to the extraordinary challenges that children and adolescents may face when dealing with loss and grief.
Featuring helpful charts, quotes, activities, case studies, reproducible handouts, and resources from national organizations, this sourcebook offers strategies to help students affected by divorce; death of a parent, relative, friend, or pet; violence; chronic illness; and more. The author examines grief experiences at different developmental levels and illustrates how to:
Respond appropriately to expressions of grief that are unique to children and adolescents; Help students handle emotions associated with loss; Promote communication and facilitate effective interventions; Determine when to refer a child to a specialist; Respect cultural attitudes toward loss and grief
This resource underscores the importance of understanding how children experience grief and loss and helps educators assist in ways that promote students' emotional health and recovery.
Am I Qualified to Work with Grieving Children?
Am I Qualified to Work with Grieving Children?
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
Overview
Most school-aged children have experienced, or will experience, some form of loss in their lives. Some of these experiences are not always recognized as grievable losses by educators (e.g., illness, moving, divorce), yet these types of events can profoundly affect academic performance, emotional stability, and social interactions. Death-related losses, including suicide, violence, or other traumatic events, often find the school professional ill-equipped and grappling with ways to comfort and deal with distraught students. It is essential that educators not only be skilled at identifying students affected by loss but possess the competencies to comfortably address these inevitable situations. ...
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