Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids
Title | Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids PDF eBook |
Author | Alan D. Wolfelt |
Publisher | Companion Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2001-04-01 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1617220760 |
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again. Included in the books for teens and kids are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.
Healing a Child's Grieving Heart
Title | Healing a Child's Grieving Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Alan D. Wolfelt |
Publisher | Companion Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2001-04-01 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1617220426 |
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say—or what not to say—to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that the most important thing a person can do is listen, have compassion, be there for support, and do something helpful. This volume addresses what to expect from grieving young people, and how to provide safe outlets for children to express emotion. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for “carpe diem” actions that people can take right this minute—while still remaining supportive and honoring the mourner’s loss.
Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart
Title | Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Alan D. Wolfelt |
Publisher | Companion Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2001-04-01 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1617220523 |
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say—or what not to say—to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that the most important thing a person can do is listen, have compassion, be there for support, and do something helpful. This volume addresses what to expect from grieving young people, and how to provide safe outlets for teens to express emotion. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for “carpe diem” actions that people can take right this minute—while still remaining supportive and honoring the mourner’s loss.
Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens
Title | Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Wolfelt |
Publisher | Paw Prints |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-08-11 |
Genre | Bereavement in adolescence |
ISBN | 9781439547038 |
Provides tips for understanding and expressing grief and offers practical ideas and suggested activities to help teens move through their pain.
Healing The Bereaved Child
Title | Healing The Bereaved Child PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Wolfelt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 525 |
Release | 2013-12-19 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1317756495 |
First published in 1996. One spring morning a gardener noticed an unfamiliar seedling poking through the ground near the rocky, untidy edge of his garden ... So begins the parable that sets the tone for this inspiring, heartfelt new book for caregivers to bereaved children. By comparing grief counseling to gardening, Dr. Wolfelt frees caregivers of the traditional medical model of bereavement care, which implies that grief is an illness that must be cured. He suggests that caregivers instead embrace a more holistic view of the normal, natural and necessary process that is grief. He then explores the ways in which bereaved children can not only heal but grow through grief. Healing the Bereaved Child also contains chapter after chapter of practical caregiving guidelines: • How a grieving child thinks, feels and mourns: What makes each child's grief unique; How the bereaved child heals: the six needs of mourning; Foundations of counseling bereaved children; Counseling techniques (play, art, writing, nature and many others; more than ,15 pages!); A family systems approach to counseling; Support groups for bereaved kids, including a 10 session model; Helping grieving children at school, including a crisis response team model; Helping the grieving adolescent; Self-care for the child’s bereavement caregiver. A must-read for child counselors, hospice caregivers, funeral directors, school counselors and teachers, clergy, parents-anyone who wants to offer support and companionship to children affected by the death of someone loved.
Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart
Title | Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Alan D. Wolfelt |
Publisher | Companion Press |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2002-09-01 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1617220612 |
Offering heartfelt and simple advice, this book provides realistic suggestions and relief for an adult child whose parent has died. Practical advice is presented in a one-topic-per-page format that does not overwhelm with psychological language, but provides small, immediate ways to understand and reconcile grief. Some of the action-oriented tips include writing down memories, completing a task or goal left unfinished by your deceased parent, or honoring the parent’s birthday. In addition the common challenges that face grieving adult children, such as helping the surviving parent, resolving sibling conflicts, and legal and financial issues, are addressed clearly and concisely.
Healing Your Traumatized Heart
Title | Healing Your Traumatized Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Alan D. Wolfelt |
Publisher | Companion Press |
Pages | 125 |
Release | 2002-09-01 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1617220914 |
Dealing with grief in a practical manner, this guide offers compassionate tips for those affected by a traumatic death. Included are topics such as coping with family stress, expressing feelings of hurt and anger, dealing with hurtful comments, and exploring feelings of guilt. Each of the 100 suggestions is aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void in order to help survivors begin their lives again. Some of the tips include understanding the special characteristics of trauma grief, planting a tree in memory of the person who died, and making connections with others affected by a similar death.