When Kids Are Grieving Addressing Grief and Loss in School [Paperback]

This primer helps educators understand and respond appropriately to students' unique expressions of grief, facilitate effective interventions, and determine when to refer a child to a specialist.This primer helps educators understand and respond appropriately to students' unique expressions of grief, facilitate effective interventions, and determine when to refer a child to a specialist. Burns provides an excellent, user-friendly guide to help school personnel navigate the tricky waters of child grief.?This is a welcome resource for school professionals.The authors sensitivity and understanding of cultural variations in reactions to loss provide a much-needed perspective to this important topic. A significant resource?for educators as they work with children and adolescents who are dealing with grief and loss. Burns' book captures the wisdom, sensitivity, and gentle humor that she has used in a lifetime of work with grieving families. She teaches us to discover our own strengths as we mourn the people we have loved and lost. Donna Burns has written an important book for practicing professionals, especially school professionals involved with grieving children and young adults. What is a matter for profound grieving by a young person may not be recognized among adults as an issue calling for sensitive support. And, symptoms of childhood and young adult grieving are often mistaken for other issues because young people are so often indirect in the ways they channel their grief. Burns provides an excellent resource for preventing traumatic grieving, recognizing youthful grieving as it occurs, and constructively responding to grieving youth at the individual, classroom, and school levels. This book provides an excellent knowledge base on the subject, and is also an invaluable reference volume that every educational professional would do well to own.Thl3>