How Do We Tell the Children? Fourth Edition A Step-By-Step Guide for Helping Children and Teens Cope When Someone Dies

Name: How Do We Tell the Children? Fourth Edition A Step-By-Step Guide for Helping Children and Teens Cope When Someone Dies
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ISBN: 9781557049117

ISBN-10: 1557049114

ISBN-13: 9781557049117

Edition: 4th 2011

Authors: Dan Schaefer, Christine Lyons, David Peretz, Daniel Schaeffer

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Now in its third edition, this classic guide is expanded and updated to feature new material on dealing with trauma and devastation, addressing violence in schools, helping grandparents cope as caregivers, and an enlarged quick-reference "Crisis Section" with scripts, answers, and messages for young ones.

Book details

List price: $17.99
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Schaefer is a psychologist and member of the guest factory of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and New York Adelphi and Rutgers universities. For more than twenty-five years he was the director of a funeral home (founded by his grandfather).

Lyons is a journalist.



Preface



Foreword



Introduction: The Solitary Mourner



What Children Think About Death


Two to Six Years


Six to Nine Years


Nine to Twelve Years


Teenagers



Explaining Death to Children


Death of a Grandparent


Death Of an Immediate Family Member (Mother, Father, Sibling)


Infant Death


Death of a Friend or Classmate


Accidental Death


Murder


Suicide


Aids


How to Talk to Children about Someone who is zDying


How to Talk to a Mentally Retarded Child


Death of a Pet



Grief and Healing


Common Reactions to Grief


The Special Needs of Children


The Grieving Process


Problems to be Prepared for at Various Ages


Dealing with Anger, Guilt, and Responsibility


Helping your Child to Heal



Expectations for the Grieving Child and the Best Ways to Respond


Traumatic Stress


One Personal Experience of Trauma



Schools and Trauma



The Funeral-Finding a Way to Say Good-bye


Telling Children what to Expect


A Good-Bye Gift


Questions your Child Might Ask


"Life Goes On"



Crisis Checklist


Bibliography and Support Groups


Index


About the Authors