Traumatic Grief and Loss: What Children Need

In a traumatic bereavement, how the child or the young person experiences or understands the death – the meaning they make of it – results in it being experienced as traumatic.

The trauma gets in the way of the typical process of grief and blocks the child or young person’s ability to process the loss.

A child can experience traumatic bereavement at any age. Any type of death can result in a traumatic bereavement. Traumatically bereaved children and young people experience significant distress and difficulties, over and above a more typical grief. It is vital that these children are identified and given the appropriate help and support.

Session Takeaways:

1. How to identify traumatic bereavement
2. The 6-point support plan
3. Planning for traumatic bereavement

This is a recording of a past webinar