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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.
What do I Need to Know about Children's Grief?
What do I Need to Know about Children's Grief?
Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.
Overview
Children's perceptions of and responses to loss are shaped by a dynamic interplay between developmental issues and social forces. Concepts involving issues in grief and loss are multidimensional, with development intrinsically contributing to how losses are perceived, understood, and responded to. It's sometimes difficult for adults to connect children and grief, which underscores the fact, as noted in Chapter 2, that children are often not recognized as grievers. The reality is ...
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