What Children Need When They Grieve. The Four Essentials: Routine, Love, Honesty, and Security by Julia Wilcox Rathkey
Reviewed by Barbara Jones, Community Health Education Center Intern
The death of a loved one is an emotional crisis that adults grapple with. For children death is particularly perplexing. Julia Wilcox Rathkey, author of What Children Need When They Grieve, was suddenly thrown into the surreal world of death and grief when her husband and the father of her three children died in the 911 tragedy. As the surviving parent she became not only a grieving widow, but also the grief navigator and counselor for her three children. Rathkey found a limited amount of literature available written by parents who had been down this path of helping their children grieve for a loved one, thus the creation of this book. Personal observations and anecdotes make for engaging reading. The strength of this work is the fact that it is written from a mother's perspective; a mother who ached with her children, sought to assist them through the grieving process and to be able to smile and enjoy life again.
Community Health Education Ctr BF723.G75 R38 2004 Non-circulating
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