CYP Now - Resources: Review - How to help children cope with loss

This book includes a wide range of contributions from a variety of professionals immersed in the needs of children coping with the death of a parent or sibling. Here in the UK, every 30 minutes a child's parent dies. And, even though research shows that it is one of the most fundamental losses a child can face, there are still few opportunities for families to receive appropriate services locally.

This book addresses and explains the theoretical concepts and practicalimplications behind the idea of brief, cost-effective work with bereavedchildren and families. It provides a focus on resilience, working withfamilies' strengths and possibilities rather then merely identifyingtheir problems.

The book makes an excellent introduction as well as providing ChildhoodBereavement Network members with food for thought. The chapters look atthe importance of assessment, interventions and the potential of peersupport through group work. It also presents ideas on reachingadolescents through web-based services.

The chapter by Gillian Chowns on work with children whose parents areseriously ill is particularly welcome, while the chapter by ProfessorWilliam Yule, which invites us into the often private worlds of highlytraumatised children, and Dyregrov's on helping families after suicideare equally compelling. However, as one would expect, the final andtruly expert words are provided by a bereaved father who powerfullyportrays the issues in crossing "the great barrier grief".

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