Living With Grief-Children, Adolescents, and Loss
© Hospice Foundation of America 2000

Though we tend to try and protect our children from the sadness and trauma of death, yet " . . Children and adolescents, as well as adults, face a myriad of losses every day, and they do grieve these losses. Of course, loved ones die - grandparents, parents, siblings, schoolmates. So do beloved pets - often a child's first real experience with death." *

Yet how does one support a grieving child? What can you say and what should you do? It is not something the average person thinks about until a tragedy occurs. This book - a compilation of articles from over 25 different contributers - was inspired by 7th annual National Bereavement Teleconference to be held on 26 April 2000. It takes on difficult subjects and sympathetically attempts methods of care gleaned from the actual experiences of the writers. It addresses many different events and how they differ, giving practical advice on this most difficult of all subjects.

A partial list of its Table of Contents of Living with Grief includes:

• What do we know about grieving Children and Adolescents? with practical suggestions.
• The role of the school
• Part of Me Died Too: Creative Strategies for Grieving Children and Adolescents.
• When parents die
• Grief and Traumatic Loss: What Schools Need to Know and Do.
• Magical Dreams, Visions of Reality, with practical suggestions on how to
  talk to a grieving child.
• Play Therapy to Help Bereaved Children
• . . . and many other topics

Available from Hospice & Palliative Care of Westchester for $16.95 a copy. Click HERE to access a convenient form for ordering.

(* From the Foreward of "Living with Grief" by Jack D. Gordon, President, Hospice Foundation of America.)