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 Dan Schaefer, Christine Lyons, David Peretz (Foreward) Newmarket Press From A Press Release Book Description Now in its third edition, a practical guide for anyone who works or lives with children deals with questions about loss and change, fear and sadness, and life and death. The World Trade Center and Pentagon tragedies, witnessed on television by people all around the world, many of them children, brought into focus how little adults are prepared to talk with children about the subject of death. It's an inescapable reality that children are witnessing violence and accidents on a daily basis?on television, in the movies, and in real life. Many of them will be faced with the loss of a parent through death, divorce, or desertion. How can adults help young ones cope with these traumas? How do they explain and console in language that a child can understand? How can they be honest without adding to the child's fears? Author Dan Schaefer, Ph.D., a consultant with military and police survivors and a former funeral director, answers these questions in his book HOW DO WE TELL THE CHILDREN?: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR HELPING CHILDREN TWO TO TEEN COPE WHEN SOMEONE DIES. He has expanded the book, now in its third edition, to include new material to help adults as well as children cope with the impact of traumatic events, providing adults with strategies to assist children with grief and trauma and offer time-tested advice and language that children can understand. In five chapters, the book includes sections on:
DAN SCHAEFER, Ph.D. has served as a guest faculty member at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and the graduate schools at New York, Adelphi, Hofstra, and Rutgers universities. He has consulted with both military and police survivors. For more than thirty years he managed a family-owned funeral home that served families for four generations. "How do we tell the children?" was the question most often asked by grieving parents. His invaluable past experience and current work as President of Peak Performance Strategies have contributed to this practical and wise new edition. He lives in New York City. CHRISTINE LYONS is a journalist and reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times and The New York Post, among other publications. She lives in New York City. Buy: How Do We Tell the Children?: A Step-by-Step Guide for Helping Children Cope When Someone Dies Return to the Dr. Laura Reading Corner |
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