Product Description

A uniquely creative compilation of activities to help bereaved children express feelings of grief, diffuse traumatic reminders, address self-blame, commemorate the deceased, and learn coping strategies. Includes special activities for children dealing with the suicide or murder of a loved one. It covers a theoretical overview for practitioners, tips for caregivers and schools, and a ten-week curriculum for use in therapy or support groups. An invaluable resource for grief counselors, group facilitators, and school personnel.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28010 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 205 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780968519929
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
I LOVE this book. It is so good I wish I had written it myself! It is a real contribution that will help so many! ---Rabbi Earl A Grollman

This is an excellent resource of activities that will help grieving and traumatized children first find relief at the implicit sensory level and thereafter move to cognitively reframe their experience in ways they can better manage. Activities are indeed creative and unique, touch on all themes, require minimal materials and are easy to use in any setting, formal or informal. The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC) is recommending this resource to thousands of its Certified Trauma and Loss Specialists. --William Steele, MSW, PsyD., Director, The National Institute for Trauma & Loss in Children

This volume provides a wonderful treasure-chest of appealing and practical aids to assist mental health practitioners in counseling bereaved school-age children. Numerous exercises and games are included that will encourage children to express their complicated feelings about the death of a loved one. Handouts for parents and teachers as well as guidelines for practitioners serve as important resources to assist adults in their efforts to help bereaved children. --Nancy Boyd Webb, DSW, BCD, RPT-S

About the Author
Liana Lowenstein, MSW, is an author, sought-after speaker, and practitioner with 20 years of specialized work with children, adolescents and their families. She provides clinical supervision to mental health practitioners, runs a play-therapy internship program, and consults to several mental health agencies. She has a reputation as a dynamic workshop leader and has presented trainings across North America and abroad. She is founder of Champion Press publishing company and has authored numerous publications including the highly-acclaimed books, Paper Dolls & Paper Airplanes: Therapeutic Exercises for Sexually Traumatized Children (with Crisci & Lay, 1997), Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth (1999), More Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth (2002). Her newest books released in 2006 are Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce, and Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children.

Customer Reviews

Sueann Kenney-Noziska, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S, President, Play Therapy Corner Inc
If you're looking for a book to work with bereaved children and youth, you've found it! Packed full of creative, practical activities, the interventions contained in this manual will be useful regardless of your practice setting or credentials. A versatile and useful tool that will help grieving children and families and will serve as a valuable resource for your practice.

Excellent!
This book is really great to work with bereaved children. Especially those that are resistant to the process. I find it highly valuable and with great ideas to approach such difficult subject. It even has a chapter dedicated to special children needs, like when the death is suicide or murder related. Great resource!

Don't lose this book!
This book has amazing activites, ideas and worksheets to work through the stages and processes of grief. The greatest thing is that they apply to many situations of loss/grief. The adaptation of the activities is simple and everyone will find so many things they can use.