Children and Grief Articles

Anger and Grief in Children...Ways to help children identify and cope with their grief-related anger.

 

Helping Children Cope with Catastrophe...Specific ways to help kids cope when a catastrophe happens.

 

How Children Express Grief...How children work their way through the grief process and how they express their grief.

 

How Children Understand Death...The developmental stages of a child's understandings of death. "Ages and Stages" information about how children develop their knowledge and understandings of death.

 

How to Help Grieving Children...Specific tips to help children express their grief and learn to cope with the emotions of grief.

 

Issues of Grieving Children...The issues grieving children face as they journey through their own special brand of grief.

 

Myths about Children and Grief...Exploring some of the myths and misconceptions about children and grief: how they grieve, when they grieve and if they should grieve.