Breaking the Silence

Designed for mental health professionals and educators, this book provides ideas to work with children in various areas of grief, presenting words and methods to help initiate discussions of these delicate topics, as well as tools to help children

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Designed for mental health professionals and educators this book provides specific ideas and techniques to work with children in various areas of complicated grief. It presents words and methods to help initiate discussions of these delicate topics, as well as tools to help children understand and separate complicated grief into parts. Suicide, homicide and violent crime, AIDS and abuse are each addressed at length, after which the author explains healthy ways to include children in all aspects of the death of a loved one. The author closes with a list of national support resources and an extensive annotated bibliography with books produced by category of grief.