Healing Children's Grief

Using qualitative analytic methods, Healing Children's Grief identifie s five developmentally derived age groups that clarify important diffe rences in children's grief and mourning processes, in their understand ing of events, their interactions with families, and their varying nee ds for help and support.

The author gives numerous examples of the way s parents and extended family interacted with the children, and also t he ways that professionals, friends, and many others helped families d eal with this tragedy.