Description
An informative, empathetic and accessible guide to understanding childhood grief at every age, which will help caretakers to support children mourning after loss.
From Dr Corinne Masur, an award-winning clinical psychologist specialising in grief and mourning, comes a necessary and impactful guide to understanding children''s grief from the inside and to guiding children through loss, from the death of a parent and other family members, to the loss of friends, pets and even the family home. Dr Masur describes how to understand, help and guide children at each age and stage of development and uses her own childhood experience with loss through empathetic yet clinically informed advice.
When Dr Masur was fourteen years old, her father died. Like most children and teens facing loss, Masur didn''t know how to handle her grief, and she was never encouraged to acknowledge or share what she was feeling with her family, teachers or friends. Her experience of shock and e