Healing The Bereaved Child: Grief Gardening, Growth Through Grief and Other Touchstones for Caregivers

by Alan D. Wolfelt

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.

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996