Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Helping Children with Complicated Grief - Suicide, Homicide, Aids, Violence and Abuse

by Linda Goldman

Book Overview

The second edition of this bestselling book is designed for mental health professionals, educators, and the parent/caregiver, this book provides specific ideas and techniques to work with children in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560324341
• ISBN13: 9781560324348
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

This book really helped me

This book was extremely helpful to me in dealing with a personal complicated grief event. I think it would be a critical resource for teachers and counselors. As our world continues to stuggle with these issues that touch all our lives in some way, it is a resource useful for us all.

A creative, unique, and wonderful book.

This book is very well thought out. It is a very easy and smooth read. There are appropriate pictures and child artwork to help convey messages in the book. This book would be truely helpful to anyone dealing with a suffering child. I highly recommend this book!

Outstanding!

This book is an excellent resource for parents, caregivers, and children dealing with the complex facets of grief. The author speaks from her heart, and obviously understands these issues at a personal level. Her techniques in speaking to children, and the child in each of us, through the use of photos, children's artwork, and creative writing is a wonderful way for the observer/reader to focus on what these pictures mean to the individual. This in turn can lead to an inner dialogue and a unique individual healing process.

Outstanding and Practical

Linda Goldman has again written an excellent resource on traumatic grief issues. Her in-depth understanding of traumatized children allows the reader to obtain deeper understanding and techniques for working with children. I think that any professional working with traumatic grief issues and children would highly benefit from this book.

Magnificent.

This wonderful book demonstrates in a very clear and helpful way how to deal with kids suffering from complicated grief such as suicide, homicide, AIDS, violence, and abuse. Therapeutic interventions coupled with case studies and children's artwork and creative writing create a full spectrum of knowledge for therapists, educators and other caring adults. The chapter on a child-oriented memorial service is state-of-the-art. This book from Goldman is a goldmine!