TOPIC: Grief and Bereavement

The following reflects our most recent response for technical assistance related to this topic. This list represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Resource Aid Packets

• Resource Aid Packet: Responding to Crisis at a School
• Resource Aid Packet: Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Introductory Packets

• Introductory Packet: Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning

Practice Notes

• Practice Notes: Grief and Loss

• Children and Grief (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Children and Grief (From Beyond Indigo)
• Children and Grief. ERIC Digest.
• Children and Grief (From National Cancer Institute)
• The Child's Loss: Death, Grief, and Mourning
• Crisis Bereavement Intervention Resources for School Personnel
• Experiencing the Death of a Sibling as a Child
• Families and Grief
• Grief: Children
• Grief and Bereavement Mental Health Information
• Grief and Gender Differences
• Grief and the Adolescent
• How Caregivers Can Help Children Exposed to Traumatic Death
• Psychological disturbance and service provision in parentally bereaved children: prospective case-control study. (Statistical Data Included)
• Young Adults and Grief

• The Child in Grief: Implications for Teaching
• Teen Age Grief Support Group Package
• Mental Health Professionals and the Bereaved
• Understanding Bereavement Reactions in Adults and Children
• Helping Bereaved Children
• Urban Youth as Witnesses to Violence: Beginning Assessment and Treatment Efforts

• GriefNet
• Mental Health Net - Grief Resources
• GrievingChild.org: The National Center for Grieving Children & Families

• Barklay and Eve: The role of activity books for bereaved children. Carney, K. L. (2004). Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 48, 307-319.
• Bereavement, grief, and mourning in death-related literature for children. Corr, C. A. (2003). Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 48, 337-363.
• Grief Groups for Students Who Have Had a Parent Die.   By, J. Moore & B. Herlihy (1993).  In: School Counselor, v41, pp. 54-59.
• Helping Children Cope with the Death of a Parent.   By, L. Costa & D. Holliday (1994). In: Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, v28, pp. 206-213.
• Helping children during bereavement. Lamers, E. P. (2003). Corless, Inge (ED); Germino, Barbara B. (ED); et al. (2003). Dying, death, and bereavement: A challenge for living (2nd ed.) (pp. 267-286). New York, NY, US: Springer Publishing Co. 382 pp.
• How children cope at school after family bereavement. Abdelnoor, A., Hollins, S. (2004). Educational & Child Psychology. Special Loss, Separation and Bereavement, 21, 85-94.
• Letting go of grief: Bereavement groups for children in the school setting. Samide, L. L., Stockton, R. (2002). Educational & Child Psychology. Special Loss, Separation and Bereavement, 27, 192-204.
• The Invisible Griever: Support Groups for Bereaved Children.   By, M. A. Healy-Romanello (1993). In:  Special Services in the Schools, v8, pp. 67-89.
• When Grief Visits School: Organizing a Successful Response. A Resource for Administrators, Counselors, and Other Staff.  By, J. Dudley (1995).

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