TOPIC: Grief and Bereavement

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Resource Aid Packets

• Responding to Crisis at a School
• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Introductory Packets

• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning

Practice Notes

• Grief and Loss

• Bereavement and Grief
• Children and Bereavement: How Teachers and Schools can Help
• Children and Grief
• The Child's Loss: Death, Grief, and Mourning
• Crisis Bereavement Intervention Resources for School Personnel
• Experiencing the Death of a Sibling as a Child
• Grief, Bereavement, and Coping with Loss

• ChildTrauma Academy
• GriefNet
• GrievingChild.org
• National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement

• Barklay and Eve: The role of activity books for bereaved children. Carney, K. L. (2004). Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 48, 307-319.
• Bereavement, grief, and mourning in death-related literature for children. Corr, C. A. (2003). Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 48, 337-363.
• Greif in Childhood: Fundamentals of Treatment in Clinical Practice. Corless, Inge (ED); Germino, Barbara B. (ED); et al. (2003). Dying, death, and bereavement: A challenge for living (2nd ed.) (pp. 267-286). New York, NY, US: Springer Publishing Co. 382 pp.
• Helping children during bereavement. Lamers, E. P. (2003). Corless, Inge (ED); Germino, Barbara B. (ED); et al. (2003). Dying, death, and bereavement: A challenge for living (2nd ed.) (pp. 267-286). New York, NY, US: Springer Publishing Co. 382 pp.
• How children cope at school after family bereavement. Abdelnoor, A., Hollins, S. (2004). Educational & Child Psychology. Special Loss, Separation and Bereavement, 21, 85-94.
• Letting go of grief: Bereavement groups for children in the school setting. Samide, L. L., Stockton, R. (2002). Educational & Child Psychology. Special Loss, Separation and Bereavement, 27, 192-204.

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