Understanding and Addressing Children’s Grief Issues

|Grades PK-5| This book will help you, as the caring adult, be a guide through this troubling time by helping you understand what the young child is going through and giving you comprehensive techniques to address the situation.  This is a time when a caring, unassuming adult can make a positive difference in a young person by fostering growth and by helping them understand and cope with their feelings. Understanding and Addressing Children’s Grief Issues addresses/includes:

• Common grief responses and patterns for children based on various age levels
• Suggestions for discussing a tragedy with a child
• Reactions to anticipated death and sudden death
• Normal versus abnormal grief behaviors

   

In addition to the vast amount of pertinent information found in each chapter, reproducible activity sheets and a resource section are included.