The Art of Healing Childhood Grief: A School-Based Expressive Arts Program Promoting Social and Emotional Literacy

By Anne Black

"The Art of Healing Childhood Grief is a ground breaking, timely tool developed to bring a spirit of playfulness and hope into the world of a grieving child." The Art of Healing Childhood Grief contains everything a bereavement facilitator, school counselor or mental health professional needs to successfully design a safe, child friendly program to fit any loss situation so children can grieve...and heal. Drawing on a rich heritage of psychological, educational, primary prevention and creative traditions, Black and Simpson have designed and implemented an innovative, school-based support program to usher in a new approach to childhood grief. Now in its fourth edition, this labor of love is filled with hundreds of expressive arts activities and a sequential curriculum organized in an easy to access format for professionals and lay facilitators to reference when working with an individual child, a small group of children or an entire school. Included in this manual is a chapter on responding to the needs of children children in the aftermath of death crises such as suicide, homicide, terrorist attacks and war.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1418422193
• ISBN13: 9781418422196
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 11.0"