Children and death: guidelines for grief work.
Many of the emotional and relational difficulties children face in successfully resolving grief work are correlated with their conceptual framework surrounding the meaning of death. Children's abilities to survive emotional crisis are strengthened by the parent or counselor who is able to address with the child possible conflicts of meaning and to confront paradoxes and problems which put the child's framework in jeopardy.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D010333:Paternal Deprivation