Helping children cope with separation and loss by Claudia Jewett Jarratt

Helping children cope with separation and loss by Claudia Jewett Jarratt. Revised edition. Harvard Common Press, 1994.

This book offers advice for parents, counsellors, teachers and other adults, to help them guide children through difficult passages, including death, divorce, moving and more. Chapters are: Telling children about loss; Helping children face change; Understanding and supporting grief; Facilitating the grief process; Responding to problems of self-esteem and control; Looking back, letting go, and moving on. This is one of the more important texts for this subject area.