Alan D Wolfelt - A Childs View of Grief

Healing A Childs Grieving Heart:
100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers

Healing A Childs Grieving Heart is for families, friends and caregivers who want practical, day-to-day tips for helping the grieving children they love. Some of the ideas teach about childrens unique mourning styles and needs. Others suggest simple activities and companioning tips. A compassionate, easy-to-read resource for parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, teachers, volunteersand a great refresher for professional caregivers.

ISBN 1-879651-28-9 128 pages softcover $11.95

Healing Your Grieving
Heart for Kids:
100 Practical Ideas

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids is for young and middle readers (6-12 year-olds) grieving the death of someone loved. The text is simple and straightforward, teaching children about grief and affirming that their thoughts and feelings are not only normal but necessary. Page after page of age-appropriate activities and gentle, healing guidance.

ISBN 1-879651-27-0 128 pages softcover $11.95

Healing the Bereaved Child:
Grief Gardening, Growth Through Grief and Other
Touchstones for Caregivers

One spring morning a gardener noticed an unfamiliar seedling poking through the ground near the rocky, untended edge of his garden ...

So begins the parable that sets the tone for this inspiring, heartfelt classic 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.

Illustrated throughout with specially commissioned photos of children by fine art photographer Patrick Dean, Healing the Bereaved Child also contains chapter after chapter of practical caregiving guidelines:

• My Guiding Model: Growth-oriented Grief Gardening with Bereaved Children
• Mourning Styles: What Makes Each Childs Grief Unique
• Sad/Scared/Mad/Tired/Glad: How a Grieving Child Thinks, Feels and Mourns
• How the Bereaved Child Heals: The Six Reconciliation Needs of Mourning
• Grief Gardening Basics: Foundations of Counseling Bereaved Children
• The Grief Gardeners Tools: Techniques for Counseling Bereaved Children
• Grief Gardening and the Family: A Systems Approach to Healing the Bereaved Child
• The Cold Frames of Grief Gardening: Support Groups for Bereaved Children
• The Childs Garden: Helping Grieving Children at School
• Grief Gardening in June: The Grieving Adolescent
• The Grief Gardeners Gazebo: The Importance of Self-Care

Part textbook, part workbook, part meditation, this exhilarating guide is a must-read for child counselors, hospice caregivers, funeral directors, school counselors and teachers, clergy, parentsanyone who wants to offer support and companionship to children affected by the death of someone loved.

ISBN 1-879651-10-6

8 1/2 x 11 format 344 pages softcover $39.95

Healing A Teens Grieving Heart:
100 Practical Ideas for Families,
Friends & Caregivers

Healing A Teens Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers is for adults who want practical, day-to-day how-tos for helping the grieving teens in their lives. Some of the ideas teach about teenagers unique mourning styles and needswhich are particularly complicated because of the teens already difficult developmental tasks. Other ideas suggest simple activities and tips for relating to and spending time with the grieving teen.

ISBN 1-879651-24-6 128 pages softcover $11.95

Healing Your Grieving
Heart for Teens:
100 Practical Ideas

In this compassionate book for grieving teenagers, Dr. Wolfelt speaks honestly and straightforwardly to teens, affirming their thoughts and feelings and giving them dozens of teen-friendly ideas for understanding and coping with their grief. The book also acknowledges teenagers natural tendencies to spurn adult help while encouraging them to express their grief. Unlike longer, more text-dense books on grief, the one-idea-per-page format is inviting and readable for this age group.

ISBN 1-879651-23-8 128 pages softcover $11.95

The Healing Your Grieving Heart

Journal for Teens
With a foreword by Brian Griese

Teenagers often dont want to talk to adultsor even to their friendsabout their struggles. But given the opportunity, many will choose the more private option of writing. Many grieving teens find that journaling helps them sort through their confusing thoughts and feelings.

Yet few journals created just for teens exist and even fewer address the unique needs of the grieving teen. In the Introduction, this unique journalwritten by Dr. Wolfelt and his 14-year-old daughter, Meganaffirms the grieving teens thoughts and feelings and offers gentle, healing guidance. The six central needs of mourning are explained, as are common grief responses. Throughout, the authors provide simple, open-ended questions for the grieving teen to explore, such as:

What do you miss most about the person who died?

Write down one special memory.

Which feelings have been most difficult for you since the death? Why?

Is there something you wish you had said to the person who died but never did?

Describe the personality of the person who died. Tape a photo here, too, if youd like.