A Child's View of Grief

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A Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors

By Alan Wolfelt

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A Child's View of Grief by Alan Wolfelt provides a concise and caring guide for adults to understand how children and adolescents grieve the loss of a loved one. The book explores the six reconciliation needs of mourning and emphasises the importance of creating an emotional environment filled with love and acceptance. It includes historical perspectives on children and death, offers guidance on empathy, and suggests ways to involve children in funeral services to support their coping process.
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This book is ideal for parents, teachers, caregivers, and anyone seeking to support young people through grief in a sensitive and informed way.

A caring guide that teaches parents, teachers, and other adults how children and adolescents grieve after someone they love dies. Exploring the six reconciliation needs of mourning, this resource recognises that grieving children are especially deserving of an emotional environment of love and acceptance.

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Parents, teachers, and other adults can learn through this concise and caring guide to how children and adolescents grieve after someone they love dies. Exploring the six reconciliation needs of mourning, this helpful resource recognises that grieving children are especially deserving of an emotional environment of love and acceptance.

Including a historical perspective on children and death, this handbook helps adults recognise the importance of empathy toward a grieving child, and provides guidelines for involving children in funeral services. These suggestions can help anyone who wants to help young people better cope with grief so that they can go on to become emotionally healthy adults themselves.

A Child's View of Grief is an essential guide for those seeking to understand and support the unique ways children experience loss.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781879651432

Publisher: Companion Press,US

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: Companion Press,US

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 4.0mm

Width: 215.0mm

Height: 140.0mm

Weight: 100g

Pages: 54

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Alan Wolfelt Grief & Loss Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Alan D Wolfelt Ph.D. serves as director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He writes the 'Children and Grief' column for Bereavement Magazine and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Today. He is the author of Healing Your Grieving Heart, Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart, and Understanding Your Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.