Designed specifically for the use of counsellors and therapists working with children who have suffered bereavement. This workbook can be used as a basis for opening discussions and as a medium for helping children and young people to communicate and understand the often painful and confusing thoughts and emotions provoked by the death of someone close to them. It is presented in a format that can be read by both child and adult simultaneously, every page is illustrated with pictures that both hold the child's interest and trigger ideas. Beginning with an exploration of the concepts of death and dying, the workbook covers all aspects and stages of bereavment from the initial pain of separation to the anger, fear and dreams that the child may experience, concluding with sections on remembering and going on.

 

 

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published in 1998 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers .

Mary Turner is a psychotherapist and counsellor with considerable experience working with grieving children and families in social service, university, hospital, hospice and bereavement service settings. She is author of Someone Very Important Has Just Died also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Mary lives in Worcestershire, UK. Bob Thomas was a painter and decorator by trade who, through his own experience of serious illness and bereavement, discovered his artistic talents.