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

~ (Author) "My first book, Life and Loss: A Guide to Help Grieving Children, concentrates on normal grief work with children..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review

Goldman is an artisan in her writing, bringing together the gifts of author and therapist with the work of the listener to the story in ways that help us address issues and touch the hearts of children she writes about. Her book is a warehouse of resources on complicated grief as it is woven through life and through the lives of children. The insights are on target, and the help will enable us, as adults (parents and professionals), be more present in the story and feelings of children...This book is a must for your professional library and should be made available to parents and families. -- Resources Hotline, 2002 (The World Pastoral Care Center)
Breaking the Silence is a book that needs to be read by everyone concerned about helping children heal from one of lifes most tragic events. Goldmans experience and understanding of the issues and needs of children provides a solid foundation for parents, educators, and counselors seeking assistance. -- Donna L. Schuurman, Ed.D., Executive Director, The Dougy Center for Grieving Children
Linda Goldman is a well known international expert on educating children about life and death and treating childrens grief. This book helps us to understand childrens reaction to grief and their related therapy. -- Sam Ng, Ph.D., National Tawain Normal University
Breaking the Silence, 2nd Edition offers parents, teachers, counselors and anyone who works with or cares for children, clear methods for addressing the crisis of untimely, sudden, or socially stigamtized deaths. -- Karen L. Carney, RN, LCSW, Bereavement Program Director, DEsopo Resource Center for Loss and Transition, Author/Illustrator, The Barclay and Eve Series of Books for Children
If you need information on the toughest issues relating to kids: Suicide, Complicated Grief, AIDS, Bullying, Abuse, Homicide and others the Breaking the Silence is the book for you. This is a great resource. This book creates a dialogue around the most difficult topics and breaks the seal of silence in a practical and useful manner. It includes many very helpful techniques that aid you in both understanding the issues and, most importantly, helping you to help the children who need your stewardship. It also offers plenty of recommendations for further study both print and Internet. I cant recommend it enough. -- Tom Golden, LCSW, Golden Healing Publishing LLC
This is an informative book that truly is a testament to the authors knowledge and experience and her desire to provide others with the tools needed to help our most important population -- children. I recommend this book without reservation and commend the author for this exceptional work. -- Doody Publishing
The best materials I found for helping children experiencing death due to suicide or violence, wre from a medical agency which supports families in crisis and in Linda Goldmans book, Breaking the Silence. Breaking the Silence boldly identifies most of the sensitive issues regarding harm to human life, suggests that children be told in simple but factual terms exactly what has happened, and then provides useful steps for helping children in each situation. I have made use of Lindas advice both in training volunteers to be facilitators of grief support groups for children, and also when providing in-service to school professionals regarding children and grief. -- Paula R. Elliott, Bereavement Specialist, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 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 (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,144,470 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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 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

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

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.