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text_cvrGrief at School: Training Guide & Resource Manual is a dual resource. The Training Guide section, which provides a 4-session curriculum, is designed to be used as an instructional learning format for school-based professionals. The Resource Manual section includes instructions and tools for understanding grieving students at each grade level, assessing the needs and resources of the whole school, developing and implementing a school-wide crisis plan, and creating school-based programs for grieving students. 

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Table of Contents
PART 1 - Training Guide

Introduction
Objectives and Benefits

SESSION 1 Preparing Educators for Grief at School
      Handout I Enhancing Reflective Listening Skills: A Critical First Step
      Listening Tips
      Handout II Alphabet Attributes: Skills for Educators and Caregivers

SESSION 2 Understanding Grieving Children and Teens: Developmental, Cognitive, and Behavioral Manifestations

SESSION 3 Types of Death, Funeral Preparation, and At-Risk Students
     Handout III Sudden and Anticipated Death Loss: Examples and Common
     Characteristics    
     Handout IV Part I: Sample Letter to Parents after a Student's Death
     Part II: Ways to Support and Help Your Grieving Child

SESSION 4 Classroom Awareness and Curriculum Integration
     Handout V Helpful and Hurtful Words
     Handout VI How to Write a Condolence Note to a Grieving Student
     Handout VII Ideas to Modify Teaching Strategies for Grieving
     Handout VIII Suggestions for Grief and Loss Curriculum Integration
     Handout IX Suggested Bibliography for Classroom Integration
     Handout X My Story
     Handout XI How Schools Can Provide Grieving Children a Safe Haven
     Handout XII How Educators Can Support the Families of Grieving Students

PART 2 - Resource Manual
Introduction

CHAPTER 1 An Overview
     Myths about Working with Grieving Children
     Important Things to Know about Grieving Children
     Reproducible Loss Inventory
     Bill of Rights for Grieving Children
     Key Terms Related to Grief
     Different Concepts of Death: Cognitive Development in Children
     The Impact of Grief on Children
     Emotional Experiences
     Physical Reactions to Grief
     Behavioral Reactions
     Thought Patterns
     Emotional Reactions
     Spiritual/Philosophical Reactions
    Common Feelings, Thoughts, and Behaviors of Grieving Children

CHAPTER 2 Factors Influencing Grief
     Factor One: Family Functioning
     Factor Two: Sudden or Traumatic Death
     Factor Three: Complicated Grief
     Factor Four: Victimization and Re-Victimization
     Factor Five: Secondary Loss/Adaptation Strategies
     Factor Six: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

CHAPTER 3 Cultural Perspectives
     Terminology
     Why Is Learning about Culture Important?

CHAPTER 4 Role of the School
     Possible Reactions of Bereaved Children in the School Setting
     Classroom Response
     Guidelines and Suggestions for Teachers When a Child's Loved One Has Died
     Do
     Don't
     Crisis Intervention: An Overview
     Skills for the Helper
     District Crisis Plans: Nuts and Bolts
     Step One: Identify Existing Teams
     Step Tw Choose Who Should Serve in These Roles
     Step Three: Consider Roles and Responsibilities
     Step Four: Gather Team for Post-Crisis Debriefing
     Helping Families Explain Funerals to Young Children
     Reproducible Guidelines for Parents and Step-Parents - Supporting Your Grieving Child

CHAPTER 5 Types of Loss
     Research Synopsis
     Harvard Child Bereavement Study
     Arizona State University Family Bereavement Program
     When Siblings Die
     When Grandparents or Extended Family Members Die
     Military Kids: Responding to Their Grief
     Impact of Grief on the Mentally and Developmentally Challenged Child

CHAPTER 6 Suicide Awareness
     Suicide Warning Signs
     Reproducible What to Expect When a Loved One Has Died by Suicide

CHAPTER 7 Care for the Helper
     Caregiver Burnout Survey

CHAPTER 8 Importance of Rituals
     Rituals to Commemorate

CHAPTER 9 Helping Children Express Their Grief
     Using Art and Play as a Means of Expression

CHAPTER 10 Practical School-Based Activities and Strategies
     Activities for Grieving Children: Grades K-3
     Reproducible Weather Symbols
     Activities for Grieving Children: Grades 4-6
     Reproducible Cards of Change
     Activities for Grieving Preteens and Young Teens: Grades 7-8
     Reproducible Crossword Puzzle
     Activities for Grieving Teens: Grades 9-12

CHAPTER 11 On-Campus Support Groups
    Establishing Support Groups
    Needs Assessment
    Identify a Compatible Co-facilitator
    Type of Group
    Other Considerations
    Enrollment Forms
    Reproducible Support Group Enrollment Form (Elementary School)
    Reproducible Teen Grief Support Enrollment Form
    Ground Rules
    Activities before Groups
    The Language of Death: Activities
    Reproducible Word Find
    Grades K-3 Support Group Sample 8-Week Session
    Grades 4-6 Support Group Sample 8-Week Session
    Grades 7-12 Support Group Sample 8-Week Session
     Reproducible Teen Bereavement Group Agreement

Bibliography
References

 

 

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