Healing the Bereaved Child: Grief Gardening, Growth Through Grief, and Other Touchstones for Caregivers (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) [Paperback]

Alan D. Wolfelt PhD (Author)

Book Description

Series: Healing Your Grieving Heart series | Publication Date: January 1, 1996

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.

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Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, is an internationally known teacher, a grief counselor, and the author of The Journey Through Grief and The Understanding Your Grief Journal. He is director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition and faculty member at the University of Colorado Medical School’s department of family medicine. He is the “Children and Grief” columnist for Bereavement magazine and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and NBC’s Today. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Product Details

• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Companion Press; 1 edition (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879651106
• ISBN-13: 978-1879651104
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #477,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Depicts grief as a normal, natural, and necessary process, May 20, 2001

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This review is from: Healing the Bereaved Child: Grief Gardening, Growth Through Grief, and Other Touchstones for Caregivers (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) (Paperback)

In Healing The Bereaved Child, Alan Wolfelt draws upon his many years of experience and expertise as the "Children and Grief" columnist for Bereavement magazine and a bereavement workshop instructor to author an outstanding book designed for parents and caregivers in dealing with children who have suffered seemingly irreconcilable loss. Wolfelt compares caregiving to bereaved children with that of a gardener tending a garden. Grief is not seen as an illness requiring a cure, but as a normal, natural, and necessary process leading to adaptation to, and reconciliation with, the processes of life and growth. Practical caregiving guidelines and insights are offers on how a grieving child thinks, feels and mourns; what makes each child's grief unique; how the bereaved child heals (the six needs of mourning); foundations of counseling bereaved children; counseling techniques; a family systems approach to counseling; support groups for bereaved kids (including a ten session model); helping grieving children at school (including a crisis response team model); helping the grieving adolescent; and self-care for the child's bereavement caregiver. Healing The Bereaved Child is essential, invaluable reading for parents, teachers, counselors, clergy, and anyone else trying to assist a bereaved child of any age or circumstance. Also highly recommended is Alan Wolfelt's How I Feel: A Coloring Book For Grieving Children.