How Children Grieve

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An informative and accessible guide to understanding childhood grief at every age, this empathetic and thoughtful guide will help caretakers to support children mourning after loss.

From Dr. Corinne Masur, an award-winning clinical psychologist specializing in grief and mourning, comes a necessary and impactful guide to understanding children’s grief from the inside and to guiding children through loss, from the death of a parent and other family members, to the loss of friends, pets, and even the family home. Dr. Masur describes how to understand, help and guide children at each age and stage of development and uses her own childhood experience with loss through empathetic yet clinically informed advice in this important guide.

When Dr. Masur was fourteen years old, her father died. Like most children and teens facing loss, Masur didn’t know how to handle her grief, and she was never encouraged to acknowledge or share what she was feeling with her family, teachers, or friends. Her experience of shock and emotional paralysis around her loss is what led her to become an expert in childhood grief in order to help grieving children and to help others to support the children in their lives who have experienced loss. 

As a psychologist and child psychoanalyst, Dr. Masur has helped many children recognize and express their feelings after loss. In How Children Grieve, Masur shares her expertise with caregivers of all kinds, giving them the tools they need to help a child or teenager to mourn, to move forward, and to make meaning of terrible loss.Preface
 
Introduction
 
Part 1: Loss and Grief from Infancy to Adolescence
 
Chapter 1: What is Grief, and How Does it Affect Children?

Chapter 2: Grief at Different Ages and Stages

Chapter 3: Understanding Different Losses
 
●        Loss Due to Divorce
●        The Loss of a Parent
●        The Loss of a Sibling
●        The Loss of a Grandparent
●        Loss Due to Violence
●        Ambiguous Loss
●        Loss Due to Suicide

Chapter 4: Reactions to Loss
●        The Myth of Closure
●        Delayed Mourning
●        Persistent Grief
●        Traumatic Shock
●        Gradual Forgetting
 
Part 2: How to Help the Child Who is Grieving
 
Chapter 5: Are You Grieving Along with Your Child?
 
Chapter 6: How to Tell if the Mourning Process is Going Well and What to Do if it is Not
 
Chapter 7: How Loss Shapes Personality
 
Chapter 8: Growth From Loss
 
Chapter 10: Conclusion
 
Chapter 11: Frequently Asked Questions
 
Chapter 12: ResourcesPraise for How Children Grieve:
“Dr. Corinne Masur’s book is a thoughtful and comprehensive guide for any adult who takes care of and/or works with a young person who has had a loved one die. She provides much of her own story and many other first hand accounts of what children and youth experience in grief and mourning. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what this process looks like at different developmental stages, as well as practical and helpful ways to allow for the expression and treatment of those feelings.”
―Mia Roldan LCSW, LCDC, author of Navigating Grief: A Guided Journal and How I Feel: Grief Journal for Kids

“Corinne Masur writes beautifully for parents and guardians about the danger of unexpressed grief in children and youth. Through stories of others and her own, we learn how the nuances of loss influence grief. She deftly merges scholarly information with her own experience and wisdom. How Children Grieve is a must for anyone who cares for children or teens who need help in expressing their grief after a loss.”
―Dr. Pauline Boss, author of Ambiguous Loss and The Myth of ClosureDr. Corinne Masur is a clinical psychologist, a child and adult Supervising Psychoanalyst and an Adult Personal Analyst at The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (PCOP) and is on the faculty there as well as at the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. She worked with children of all ages for forty-five years, and now works with parents, teenagers and adults, supervises other clinicians, teaches, and runs parenting groups. Dr. Masur is the author of Flirting With Death: Psychoanalysts Consider Mortality; Finding the Piggle: Reconsidering D.W. Winnicott’s Most Famous Child Case; When a Child Grieves, a book on grief in childhood for a professional audience; and the parenting blog Thoughtful Parenting. She is a sought after speaker and interviewee.

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