A program of education and support is essential for children and their parent or adult
caregivers when the children have experienced the death of a significant person. Children …

The death of a parent is one of the most significant and stressful events children can
encounter. Surviving children may experience psychiatric problems and social dysfunction …

This article provides basic information for school-based mental health professionals,
teachers, staff, and administrators to support students coping with grief, and more …

Based on a thorough review of the literature, this paper presents information on child
bereavement. It takes a particular focus on the implications for teaching young children …

One of the most difficult situations encountered by pediatric nurses is dealing with families
experiencing the death of a child. This article describes the development of the HOPES …

This chapter addresses the role of the school mental health professional when a child's life
has been touched by death. Because of an increased interest in issues related to death and …

When a child dies, the circle of adults who are affected in some way is indeed large.
Although parents are the adults most centrally affected, grandparents, other relatives, church …

This paper provides an overview of the development and evaluation of an educational
program to increase the knowledge of hospice and paediatric nurses who support grieving …

Grief is an expected response to an internalized sense of loss, regardless of age. This
response occurs after experiencing the death of a loved one or a drastic life change that …

First published in 1996. One spring morning a gardener noticed an unfamiliar seedling
poking through the ground near the rocky, untidy edge of his garden... So begins the parable …