Breaking The Silence: A Guide To Help Children With Complicated Grief: Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse [Paperback]

Linda Goldman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1560324341 | ISBN-13: 978-1560324348 | Publication Date: July 1, 1996 | Edition: annotated edition

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Linda Goldman is a well known international expert on educating children about life and death and treating children's grief. This book helps us to understand children's reactions to grief and their related therapy.' - Sam Ng, National Taiwan Normal University --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; annotated edition edition (July 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560324341
• ISBN-13: 978-1560324348
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,069,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent., January 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Breaking The Silence: A Guide To Help Children With Complicated Grief: Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse (Paperback)

This wonderful book demonstrates in a very clear and helpful way how to deal with kids suffering from complicated grief such as suicide, homicide, AIDS, violence, and abuse. Therapeutic interventions coupled with case studies and children's artwork and creative writing create a full spectrum of knowledge for therapists, educators and other caring adults. The chapter on a child-oriented memorial service is state-of-the-art. This book from Goldman is a goldmine!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A creative, unique, and wonderful book., April 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Breaking The Silence: A Guide To Help Children With Complicated Grief: Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse (Paperback)

This book is very well thought out. It is a very easy and smooth read. There are appropriate pictures and child artwork to help convey messages in the book. This book would be truely helpful to anyone dealing with a suffering child. I highly recommend this book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!, March 24, 2001

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H. Tresselt (South Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breaking The Silence: A Guide To Help Children With Complicated Grief: Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse (Paperback)

This book is an excellent resource for parents, caregivers, and children dealing with the complex facets of grief. The author speaks from her heart, and obviously understands these issues at a personal level. Her techniques in speaking to children, and the child in each of us, through the use of photos, children's artwork, and creative writing is a wonderful way for the observer/reader to focus on what these pictures mean to the individual. This in turn can lead to an inner dialogue and a unique individual healing process.