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Interventions With Bereaved Children Nine to Thirteen Years of age: From a Medical Center-Based Young Person’s Grief Support Program (IN: Beyond the Innocence of Childhood…, ed. by DW Adams et al)
Wolfe B S~~Senta L M
This chapter opens with an overview of children & grief. The grief program at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, Minnesota is then described. Each of the eight sessions of the Young Person’s Grief Support Program are discussed in detail. Various techniques, as they relate to children’s grief tasks, are demonstrated. 4 case examples, 3 involving the suicide of a family member, are used as illustration. (32 refs.)