Good Grief 2

Barbara Ward is a freelance trainer and consultant and a psychosynthesis counsellor from a teaching and health education background.

• Section 1. Introduction and Background. 1.1 Educators Notes. 1.2 Why Teach about Loss and Death. 1.3 Understanding Loss. 1.4 Teamwork. 1.5 How to Help Someone Who is Suffering from Loss. 1.6 Divorce and Separation. 1.7 Tracing Western Attitudes to Death. 1.8 Helping Young People Grieve. 1.9 Working with Young People Facing Death. 1.10 Explaining Death. 1.11 Suicide. 1.12 My Father Died. 1.13 Teenagers. 1.14 Preparation for a Child's Funeral. 1.15 The Effects of Disasters on Children. 1.16 The Management of Trauma And Bereavement. 1.17 The Sixth of March 1987. 1.18 Helping Schools to Deal With Death And Dying. 1.19 When a Child in Your School is Bereaved. 1.20 Loss of a Child - Helping the Parents. Section 2. Activities. 2.1 Setting the Scene. 2.2 Making Your Own Glossary. 2.3 Creative Activities. 2.4 Living with Loss. 2.5 What is Death? 2.6 How Can We Help? 2.7 Listening Skills. 2.8 Self Esteem and Self Image. 2.9 A Matter of Life and Death. 2.10 Last Rites. Section 3. Appendices. 3.1 Articles. 3.2 Additional Resources. 3.3 Student's Booklist. 3.4 Educators' Booklist. 3.5 Useful Addresses. 3.6 Attributions.

These books not only provide excellent ideas and guidance for helping grieving people, they also illustrate the huge diversity of human experiences which can be put under the heading of loss. I was so impressed by these books that I felt it was a privilege to be asked to review them.