Grief Counseling

Many students are experiencing grief for the first time. It may be the loss of a parent or grandparent, a sibling, a friend or a beloved pet. We all deal with grief in different ways but I have complied some information that may help with the healing process.

www.childgrief.org is a website that is designed to help students, parents and educators find helpful information and grief counseling services.

The Westwood Public Library has compiled a list of books that they have available to students and parents to help deal with issues of grief and mourning. Below is a list of the titles and authors of the books that they have.

Grieving and Loss / Sandra and Owen Giddens

The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends / Helen Fitzgerald

Healing the Hurt, Restoring the Hope: How to guide Children and teens through times of divorce, death and crisis with the rainbows approach / Suzy Yehl Marta

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 practical ideas / Alan Wolfelt

How do We Tell the Children? A Step by step guide for helping children to teens cope when someone dies / Dan Schaefer and Christine Lyons

I Will Remember You: what to do when someone you love dies...a guidebook through grief for teens / Laura Dower

On Grief and Grieving: finding the meaning of grief through the five stages of loss / Elisabeth Keubler-Ross and David Kessler

When a Friend Dies: a book for teens about grieving and healing / Marilyn E. Gootman

When Will I Stop Hurting?: Teens, loss, and grief / Edward Myers

Part of Me Died Too: Stories of Creative Survival Among Bereaved Children and Teenagers / Virginia Lynn Fry

Sometimes Bad Things Happen / Ellen B. Jackson

Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss / Claudia Jewett Jarratt

Where Do People Go When They Die? Mindy Avra Portnoy

The Kids' Book of Death and Dying / Eric E. Rofes