Book Description
This second edition of Breaking the Silence sheds new light onto complex areas of traumatic grief. Designed for educators, mental health professionals, caregivers and parents, it presents techniques, words, activities and methods to initiate discussion of these sensitive issues. It also provides valuable tools to break down the process of grieving for children. Resources are offered for facilitating the grieving process at home, school, or in treatment. Two new chapters have been added to this edition:'Breaking the Silence on Bullying' and 'Communities Grieve: Involvement with Children and Trauma'. All previous chapters from the first edition have been broadened and practical activities for working with bully-victimization issues and traumatized youth have been included. Resources have been greatly expanded. Books, videos, CD-ROMS, websites, curriculums, and other resources have been updated. The second edition of Breaking the Silence confronts today's traumatic grief issues with realistic and comprehensive approaches to the inundation of everyday complicated grief experiences our children live with and are subjected to in their homes, at their schools, in their communities, and in their world.
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Synopsis
Designed for mental health professionals and educators this book provides specific ideas and techniques to work with children in various areas of complicated grief. It presents words and methods to help initiate discussions of these delicate topics, as well as tools to help children understand and separate complicated grief into parts. Suicide, homicide and violent crime, AIDS and abuse are each addressed at length, after which the author explains healthy ways to include children in all aspects of the death of a loved one. The author closes with a list of national support resources and an extensive annotated bibliography with books produced by category of grief.