Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children Second Edition

In this popular resource, best-selling author and international keynote speaker Liana Lowenstein outlines her most innovative therapeutic tools including games, art, and stories, to help children bereaved by all types of death-loss, including drug overdose, suicide, homicide, mass violence, line-of-duty-death, natural disasters, and serious illness. Some activities may be adapted for youth experiencing a non-death loss—for example, a parent who is incarcerated, parental military deployment, or placement in foster care. The activities can be used in a variety of settings, including in-person and virtual individual and family sessions, children’s grief support groups and camps. This thoroughly updated second edition incorporates up-to-date knowledge on childhood grief, many new activities, additional topic areas, a sample curriculum for children’s grief support groups, and reproducible handouts for caregivers. Geared to ages 7-12.

New to the Second Edition:

·         Up-to-date theoretical information on childhood grief 

·         Revised intake questionnaire

·         All new activities to help children safely express feelings, understand death and its finality, address anger and self-blame, commemorate the deceased, and learn coping strategies

·         Special interventions for children bereaved by suicide, homicide, drug overdose, natural disasters, and other types of loss                                                                                                                                                                      

·         Techniques to help bereaved children process trauma responses

·         Sample curriculum for children’s grief support groups

·         New and revised interventions for family sessions 

·         Reproducible handouts for caregivers and tips for school personnel

·         And more!

Paperback, 216 pages.

Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S, is an author, international workshop presenter, and clinician specializing in treating children with a variety of emotional difficulties. She
received her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Western Ontario , and received her Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Toronto . She currently sees children of all ages in private practice and provides clinical supervision and consultation to mental health practitioners. She has a reputation as a dynamic workshop leader and is on the teaching faculty of the Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy.

See all four Creative Interventions books.