Healing The Bereaved Child

ISBN-13: 9781879651104 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 316 str.

Alan D. Wolfelt

Opis

This comprehensive guide to helping grieving children offers a holistic view of grief as a normal, natural process. It explores the ways in which bereaved children can not only heal but also grow through their grief, and provides the six needs of mourning and counseling fundamentals and techniques for caregivers. Also included are explorations of how a grieving child thinks, feels, and mourns; what makes each child's grief unique; and ideas to help grieving adolescents.

Spis treści

The Gardener and the Seedling: A Parable. 1 My Guiding Model 2 Mourning Styles 3 Sad/Scared/Mad/Tired/Glad 4 How the Bereaved Child Heals 5 Grief Gardening Basics 6 The Grief Gardener's Tools 7 Grief Gardening and the Family 8 The 'Cold Frames' of Grief Gardening 9 The Child's Garden 10 Grief Gardening in June 11 The Grief Gardener's Gazebo

O autorze

Alan Wolfelt grief gardens at his Center for Loss and Life Transition in Fort Collins, Colorado, which is set in the breath­taking Rocky Mountain foothills amid native blue columbine. A recipient of the Association for Death Education and Counseling's Death Educator Award, Alan writes the Children and Grief column for Bereavement magazine and often speaks on childhood bereavement al workshops across North America.