Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this practical guide to helping a child with their grief. As a bereavement counsellor I found this to be a useful and informative guide for aiding a child with their grief and loss.
This step by step guide outlines information on grief in a format that would be useful for both parents and professionals working with children. She begins by explaining that in a world where most of us are willing to share a host of personal things we are still, as a society, reluctant to discuss death and our feelings surrounding it. The first chapter begins by encouraging the reader to think about his or her own experiences of and views on grief. The book then goes on to provide useful guides on how to talk to children about grief, ‘normal’ reactions to death and sections on school shooting and also social media. Personally I found the religious aspects throughout the book a bit off-putting but regardless of your faith the activities within the book are useful.