The authors and 22 parents share their stories on living with the death of a child.  Chapters include Hanging On, Seeking Support, Redefining Home and Reaching Out.

 

 

 

 

This step-by-step guide helps parents of children ages 2-teens cope when someone dies.  Chapters include What Children Think About Death, Death of a Friend or Classmate, Traumatic Stress, and A Good-bye Gift.

 

 

 

A helpful resource for parents, teachers, coaches, ministers, or anyone who has is helping a teen age cope with grief. Different types of grief that teens are going through and trying to deal with including moving, separation/divorce, rejection, domestic/sexual/emotional abuse, illness, disability and more.

 

 

 

This book helps teens as they grieve. Chapters include How can I stand the pain, How long it will last, and Is it wrong to go to parties and have fun.

“This concise resource for parents of grieving kids explores several key principles for helping children cope with grief and offers ways to create an emotional environment filled with love and acceptance. It answers common questions such as "What should I say to children when someone they love dies?" and "Should young children attend funerals?" This guide also identifies and explains typical behaviors, thoughts, and feelings of grieving kids and offers adults tips for responding to them.”

 

“A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say—or what not to say—to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that the most important thing a person can do is listen, have compassion, be there for support, and do something helpful. This volume addresses what to expect from grieving young people, and how to provide safe outlets for children to express emotion. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for “carpe diem" actions that people can take right this minute—while still remaining supportive and honoring the mourner's loss.”

 

“If you've lost a sibling, you feel sad, confused, or even angry. For the first time, a psychotherapist specializing in teen and adolescent bereavement offers a compassionate guide to help you discover your unique coping style, deal with overwhelming emotions, and find constructive ways to manage this profound loss so you can move forward in a meaningful and healthy way.”

 

“With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally….. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again. Included in the books for teens and kids are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.”

 

“Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.”