Helping Children Heal from Loss

Helping Children Heal from Loss
Author: Laurie Van-Si
Publisher: Continuing Education Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1994
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780876781029

Helps children express their grief, enabling them to cope with the death of someone close by encouraging self-expression using a variety of techniques comfortable to children.

Healing Activities for Children in Grief

Healing Activities for Children in Grief
Author: Gay McWhorter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780976303503

"Activities suitable for support groups with grieving children, preteens and teens"--Cover.

Healing Children's Grief

Healing Children's Grief
Author: Grace Hyslop Christ
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780195105919

The author "relates the powerfully moving stories of eighty-eight families and their 157 children (ages 3 to 17) who participated in a parent-guidance intervention through the terminal illness and death of one of the parents from cancer."--Cover.

When Someone Dies

When Someone Dies
Author: National Alliance for Grieving Children Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996380409

The death of a family member or friend has a lasting impact on the lives of children. Often, families are at a loss as to how to talk to their children about death, and how to engage them in end of life rituals. "When Someone Dies" is an activity book for children that also provides valuable information to parents and caregivers about how grief impacts children, and offers guidance about how adults can connect with children on the very difficult subjects of death, dying, and bereavement.

After a Parent's Suicide

After a Parent's Suicide
Author: Margo Requarth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2006
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Explores the complex emotional issues children face after a parent commits suicide and offers practical advice on how the remaining parent and other family members can help them cope.

Parenting a Grieving Child

Parenting a Grieving Child
Author: Mary DeTurris Poust
Publisher: Loyola Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2002
Genre: Bereavement in children
ISBN: 9780829415278

Drawing on personal experience and expert advice, author Mary DeTurris Poust offers a practical guide for parents helping children through the grieving process in Parenting a Grieving Child.

The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book

The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book
Author: Patricia Morrissey
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1617221872

Based on Alan Wolfelt's six needs of mourning and written to pair with Companioning the Grieving Child, this thorough guide provides hundreds of hands-on activities tailored for grieving children in three age groups: preschool, elementary, and teens. Through the use of readings, games, discussion questions, and arts and crafts, caregivers can help grieving young people acknowledge the reality of the death, embrace the pain of the loss, remember the person who died, develop a new self-identity, search for meaning, and accept support. Sample activities include grief sock puppets, expression bead bracelets, the nurturing game, and writing an autobiographical poem. Activities are presented in an easy-to-follow format, and each has a goal, an objective, a sequential description of the activity, and a list of needed materials.

Children and Grief

Children and Grief
Author: J. William Worden
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781572307469

Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a richly textured portrait of the mourning process in children. The volume presents major findings from the Harvard Child Bereavement Study and places them in the context of previous research, providing insights on both the wide range of normal variation in children's experience of grief and the factors that put bereaved children at risk. The book also compares parentally bereaved children with those who have suffered loss of a sibling to death, or of a parent through divorce, exploring similarities and differences in these experiences of loss. A concluding section explores the clinical implications of the findings and includes a review of intervention models and activities, as well as a screening instrument designed to help identify high-risk bereaved children.

Grief and Trauma in Children

Grief and Trauma in Children
Author: Alison Salloum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015-02-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 113461392X

Grief and Trauma in Children provides easy-to-implement, ready-to-use therapy materials to help busy practitioners use grief and trauma interventions in real-world settings. All interventions in the book have been developed and researched with clinicians who faced challenging environments, including devastating natural disasters, and in communities where ongoing violence victimized children directly. Even in these stressful environments, clinicians found the interventions easy to implement, effective in helping children acquire coping skills, and effective in decreasing traumatic symptoms in order to proceed with grieving without impaired functioning. Grief and Trauma in Children blends cognitive-behavioral therapy methods and narrative practices to present an integrated grief and trauma model that can be delivered individually, to a group of children, or to a family. The book uses the Draw, Discuss, Write, Witness (DDWW) method to help children explore narratives of resilience and build coping capacity, engage in restorative stories about what happened, and reconnect and reengage in meaningful ways that allow the child to enjoy life again and get back on-track developmentally. Grief and Trauma in Children also provides up-to-date research on childhood bereavement and trauma, a brief description of the theoretical framework of the Grief and Trauma Intervention (GTI) model, a description of session-by-session goals and activities, case examples with ways to address common challenges, and photocopiable tools for clinicians to easily implement the model, such as session agendas, fidelity checklists, handouts for parents, and activity sheets for children.

Bereavement

Bereavement
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1984-02-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309034388

"The book is well organized, well detailed, and well referenced; it is an invaluable sourcebook for researchers and clinicians working in the area of bereavement. For those with limited knowledge about bereavement, this volume provides an excellent introduction to the field and should be of use to students as well as to professionals," states Contemporary Psychology. The Lancet comments that this book "makes good and compelling reading....It was mandated to address three questions: what is known about the health consequences of bereavement; what further research would be important and promising; and whether there are preventive interventions that should either be widely adopted or further tested to evaluate their efficacy. The writers have fulfilled this mandate well."