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Resources: Review - A look at the effects of loss on children

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Without You is intended for parents or professionals who are caring for or working with a child who has experienced a significant loss, for example through the death of a parent or sibling, or through divorce or abandonment. It provides insight into the stages that a child goes through following such a loss.

The author calls upon her own experience of working with adults andchildren who have experienced loss and this is subtly combined withtheory and research from related fields, all of which combines to make afairly thorough guide to what to expect.

Granot pulls no punches in making clear to the intended readers theresponsibility they have to the child in helping them to work throughloss appropriately and the straight-forwardness of the approach isrefreshing.

However, the language is at times rather dramatic and may scare thereader off. In addition, some of the examples are cliched and wouldbenefit from being more original and up-to-date. Gone are the days whenteachers ask whose "mom" would be willing to bake a cake for the schoolfete, surely?

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