Ideas for how to help a Child Process Grief

Grief is a difficult subject to talk about, especially when talking about it to a child for the first time. Brian talks about ways to help a child process grief and understand the permanence of death. He covers how grief can be expressed through the body and through actions, as well as how to explain the feeling of grief to a child. There are activities that Brian suggests, which are linked in the description below. Brian also talks about how grief can change a child or young adult. Below are some of the resources that Brian refers to from The Dougy Center.

https://www.dougy.org/grief-support-resources/kids
https://www.dougy.org/grief-support-resources/teens
https://www.dougy.org/news-media/podcasts

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