Helping Kids Through Grief: A Parent's Guide for Making Sense of Death, Processing Loss, and Finding Hope

Summary

More than ever before, we are living in a world where kids are encountering untimely and incomprehensible grief. The emotions that go along with grief impact them (and adults) on every level: emotionally, physically, cognitively, socially, and spiritually. But the way kids understand and process grief is different from the way adults do. Kids need the grown-ups who love them to be informed, understanding, and deeply compassionate guides to help them process the complicated feelings and find their way to hope.

From bestselling author and renowned therapist Sissy Goff, this highly practical guide offers you therapeutic tools to steadily walk the kids you love through their unique journeys of loss. With compassion and insight drawn from three decades of counseling experience, Goff shows you how to help children of all ages

• comprehend what death is
• navigate the waves of feelings that kids commonly experience
• process their grief in healthy ways
• look forward with hope

Grief doesn't have to define your child's story; it can be the starting place where they find courage and resilience they never knew they had.