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The Power of Parenting: How to Help Your Child After a Parent or Caregiver Dies [1]

NCTSN Resource

Resource Description

Offers guidance around helping children cope after the death of a loved one. Information is provided about how to face new fears in the context of bereavement, how grieving caregivers can take care of their own needs, how to help children hold on to the old while embracing the new and how to create comforting connections. In this fact sheet, co-developed by parents and professionals, parents share their knowledge gained from experience and provide practical, real life examples, that can help support families and their children who are experiencing grief and bereavement.

Resource Type: 
Type: Fact Sheet
Language: 
English
Audience: 
Families and Caregivers
Published in 2018

Source URL:https://www.nctsn.org/resources/power-of-parenting-how-to-help-your-child-after-a-parent-or-caregiver-dies

Links
[1] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/power-of-parenting-how-to-help-your-child-after-a-parent-or-caregiver-dies