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Title: Children and Grief Strategies for Counselors and Parents


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Children and GriefStrategies for Counselors and
Parents
  • By
  • Tamara Connell
  • tconnell_at_holyfamily.edu

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Introduction
  • The goal of this presentation is to give
    counselors in a school or community setting the
    tools to create a program for students dealing
    with grief.
  • Children grieve in different ways.
  • Children need to know that the way they are
    grieving is okay.
  • This presentation will give you websites that
    will tell you the stages of grieving, myths about
    grieving, and interventions counselors and
    parents can use to deal with their grief.

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Detailed Findings
  • Teens Health-Answers and Advice
  • SchoolCounselor.com
  • Coping.org Tools for Coping with Lifes
    Stressors
  • SafeYouth.org- Violence Prevention Topics-
    Bullying
  • Lorries Links

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Teens Health
  • http//www.kidshealth.org/teen/school_jobs/school/
    school_counselors.html
  • Links on how to cope with grief, what to expect,
    how to care for yourself, getting help for
    intense grief, and if you will ever get over it
    are found at this website.
  • This site is also written geared towards a child,
    but it is still thought to be useful for a
    counselor and or parent.

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Important Information Taken From Teens Health
  • Grief can be due to many things.
  • Grief is a natural reaction.
  • The site explains to a child that even if you
    think you are ready to lose someone, because they
    have been sick for a long time, it still can be
    just as traumatic as if you unexpectedly lost
    someone.
  • Tips such as participating in rituals, being
    with others, talking about it, expressing
    themselves, exercising, eating right, and joining
    a support group are suggested.
  • It is also explained that everyone grieves for
    different amounts of time.

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SchoolCounselor.com
  • http//www.schoolcounselor.com/macomb/all-sites.as
    p
  • At this website you will find lesson plans sorted
    by title for school counselors. All you have to
    do is type in the query death and a link to
    Death and the Grief Reaction Process will come
    up for you to click on.
  • This site is mostly useful to counselors and
    parents because it explains the grieving process
    in stages such as the denial stage, fear stage,
    anger stage, depression stage, and reorganization
    stage.

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Important Information Taken from
SchoolCounselor.com
  • Each stage does not always happen in this exact
    order, and some stages last longer than others.
  • In order to help deal with the behavioral,
    emotional problems, difficulty in academics, and
    social skills that a child is having due to a
    loss experienced in his or her life a counselor
    needs to understand the five stage process.
  • Interventions used by counselors and that could
    be used by parents are given.

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Coping.org
  • http//www.coping.org/
  • At this web site you want to click on Tools for
    handling loss by James J. Messina, Ph.D. This
    will bring you to a link that lists the table of
    contents for Messinas manual.
  • This includes information that is probably more
    geared to counselors because it may give them
    some ideas of how to work with children who are
    dealing with loss and a misunderstanding of what
    death truly means.

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Important Information Taken from Coping.org
  • The table of contents you will find has all of
    these areas covered.
  • This can be very helpful for counselors.
  • Tools for Handling Loss
  • Introduction Prologue Tools for Handling Loss
  • Loss Events in Dysfunctional Families
  • Stages of the Loss Process
  • Dealing with Denial
  • Handling Bargaining Behavior
  • Anger Workout
  • Handling Despair
  • Accepting Change
  • Letting Go
  • Death The Last Act of Life

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SafeYouth.org.
  • http//www.safeyouth.org/scripts/topics/bullying.a
    sp
  • This site brings you to a link called Working
    with Grieving Children after a Violent Death. A
    Guidebook for Crime Victim Assistance
    Professionals.
  • The areas of this guidebook that would be helpful
    to a parent and or counselor are the The
    Grieving Child and The Interventions for the
    Grieving Child.

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Important Information Taken from SafeYouth.org.
  • Worksheets can be found at this site.
  • The Grieving Child area of the guidebook gives
    the developmental stages of a child. This is a
    great tool for counselors and or parents because
    it explains what an infant, toddler,
    pre-schooled, school-age, early adolescent, and
    adolescent child might be going through due to a
    loss.
  • Methods of intervention for use by counselors and
    parents are given such as oral storytelling,
    guided free play, stimulating conversation,
    creative writing, creative art, dramatic
    enactments, and lastly music.

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Lorries Links
  • http//www.portup.com/lburhans/main.html
  • This web site has many different links. The one
    found useful by the researcher was Healthy
    Place.
  • The link found to be very interesting and helpful
    to a counselor and or parent would be the nine
    common myths and realities about grief. When a
    counselor or parent is aware of these myths it
    makes it easy to sympathize with a client because
    you understand what they may be thinking.

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Important Information Taken from Lorries Links
  • Some of the myths a child may be dealing with
    when it comes to grief is
  • Not talk about the loss so the person does not
    feel uncomfortable. (Talking about the loss is
    very important, avoiding it is not healthy)
  • It has been twelve months now the person should
    be over it by now. (Everyone grieves for
    different amounts of time) (there is no time
    limit)
  • You need to be more active and get out more to
    feel better. (Activities that the person has been
    in should be maintained, but people should not be
    told to join things or do things just to forget
    about their loss.

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Conclusion
  • It is hoped that the information provided gave
    counselors and parents many ways of gaining
    information technologically about the grieving
    process.
  • It is hoped that counselors and parents gained
    some ideas for interventions to deal with a
    grieving child.
  • Lastly it is hoped that these websites will bring
    a counselor and or parent to another link that
    will be of some help to them for dealing with a
    grieving child.

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Closing Remarks
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Additional Resources
  • The links below are to the original research
    paper completed, sample OCR Scan, and my Internet
    Address Book.
  • ConnellTamaraA3bIAB.xls
  • ..\Tamara Connell Sample Ocr scan.doc
  • ConnellTamaraA4ResPap.doc
  • my web site http//www.angelfire.com/poetry/tmcon
    nell0/
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