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Parent Guide: Supporting a Grieving Child

The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement and the New York Life Foundation have partnered to develop a booklet that provides practical advice on how parents and other adults can support grieving children. The booklet can be downloaded for free as a .pdf. Also, hard copies can be ordered. View the booklet.
 

The booklet provides practical advice on how parent can support grieving children.

 

The booklet provides practical advice on how parent can support grieving children.

What's Covered in this Guide

  • Helping children, helping the family
  • Why a parent's rold is important
  • Helping children understand death
  • How children respond to death
  • Attending funerals and memorials
  • Helping children cope over time
  • Getting help
  • Taking care of yourself
  • Looking into the future
Schonfeld D, Quackenbush M:  After a Loved One Dies-How Children Grieve and how parents and other adults can support them.  New York, NY:  New York Life Foundation, 2009.
 

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