Helping the Grieving Student: A Guide for Teachers

by The Dougy Center

Book Overview

At some point, every teacher will encounter a student who has been affected by a death. This guidebook is an essential resource for elementary, middle- and high-school teachers, offering practical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890534013
• ISBN13: 9781890534011
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Dougy Center
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A Practical Guide

This is a super guide for those who need to help a grieving young person. Since life is so confusing, death complicates (understatement) matters. That's why this book matters... it takes a grieving student out of the realm of mystery and gives practical suggestions.

A valuable tool

I purchased this book as a resource for a research project I was doing on the role that educators should play in assisting the childhood grieving process. I have volunteered for a couple of years as a group facilitator for children who have lost a parent or a sibling, and some of the greatest difficulties they encounter after their parent or sibling's death are surrounding their return to school and the insensitivity of their teachers and peers. Education on childhood grieving is generally not provided to teachers-in-training, so many of them simply do not know how to react when faced (as they inevitably will be at some point in their career) with a grieving student. This book is an excellent resource for educators and school administrators, and I strongly recommend that it be incorporated into standard teacher orientations in local schools.