Helping Children Grieve (Grief Steps Guides)

A direct, yet sensitive guide for helping in the recovery and healing of children, from the very youngest of age up to teenagers and beyond.

Most children experience a certain level of order and happiness in their lives. Suddenly, when a child experiences profound loss or an unexpected death, their world is no longer "normal", and that stability is replaced with grief, confusion, and anxiety.

In Helping Children Grieve, Ruth P. Arent extends a bold yet gentle hand to hold during this most painful of life's experiences. Her practical and insightful exercises and stories — accompanied with her optimism and empathy — will help parents and caregivers nurture and assist the bereaved child.

With the right amount of patience and perspective, this book will help return the child to a renewed level of trust, spontaneity and hope for a future of wellness.

A caring and compassionate guide for understanding grief from the child's point of view Most children, throughout their beginning years of life, have known a continuum of order, stability and happiness. Suddenly, when a child experiences profound loss, their world is shaken and they become unsure about all they have known, expected or assumed. Ruth P. Arent present us with direct, yet sensitive guidelines and suggestions for helping in the recovery and healing of children, from the very youngest of age up to teenagers and beyond. For parents, caregivers and friends of grieving children, Ruth extends a bold yet gentle hand to hold, with her encouragements, insights, optimism and empathy for all concerned, during this most painful of life's experiences. Many exercises, examples and suggestions will help the reader to nurture and assist the bereaved child. Through the patience and perspective, it is the hope of the caregiver to return the child to a renewed level of trust, spontaneity and hope for a future of wellness.