Overcoming Loss: Activities and Stories to Help Transform Children's Grief and Loss PDF
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Overcoming Loss of relatedinterest Talking with Children and Young People about Death and Dying SecondEdition MaryTurner IllustratedbyBobThomas ISBN9781843105169 Grief in Children AHandbookforAdults SecondEdition AtleDyregrov ISBN9781843106128 Grief in Young Children AHandbookforAdults AtleDyregrov ISBN9781843106500 The Colors of Grief UnderstandingaChild’sJourneythroughLossfromBirthtoAdulthood JanisA.DiCiacco ISBN9781843108863 Empowering Children through Art and Expression CulturallySensitiveWaysof HealingTraumaandGrief BruceStThomasandPaulJohnson ISBN9781843107897 Grandad’s Ashes WalterSmith ISBN9781843105176 When a Family Pet Dies AGuidetoDealingwithChildren’sLoss JoAnnTuzeo-Jarolmen,Ph.D. ISBN9781843108368 Overcoming Loss Activities and Stories to Help Transform Children’s Grief and Loss Julia Sorensen Illustrated by Maryam Ahmad Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia Firstpublishedin2008 byJessicaKingsleyPublishers 116PentonvilleRoad LondonN19JB,UK and 400MarketStreet,Suite400 Philadelphia,PA19106,USA www.jkp.com Copyright©JuliaSorensen2008 IllustrationsCopyright©MaryamAhmad2008 Allrightsreserved.Nopartof thispublicationmaybereproducedinanymaterialform(includingphotocopyingor storingitinanymediumbyelectronicmeansandwhetherornottransientlyorincidentallytosomeotheruseof this publication)withoutthewrittenpermissionof thecopyrightownerexceptinaccordancewiththeprovisionsof the Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988orunderthetermsof alicenceissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency Ltd,SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS.Applicationsforthecopyrightowner’swritten permissiontoreproduceanypartof thispublicationshouldbeaddressedtothepublisher. Warning:Thedoingof anunauthorisedactinrelationtoacopyrightworkmayresultinbothacivilclaimfor damagesandcriminalprosecution. Allpages`maybephotocopiedforpersonalusewiththisprogram,butmaynotbereproducedforanyother purposeswithoutthepermissionof thepublisher. Libraryof CongressCataloginginPublicationData Sorensen,Julia. Overcomingloss:activitiesandstoriestohelptransformchildren'sgriefandloss/JuliaSorensen. p.cm. ISBN978-1-84310-646-3(alk.paper) 1. Griefinchildren.2. Bereavementinchildren.3. Loss(Psychology)inchildren. I.Title. BF723.G75S672008 155.9'3083--dc22 2007052367 BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData ACIPcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN9781843106463 ISBNpdf eBook9781846428135 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby PrintwiseLtd.,Haverhill,Suffolk This book is dedicated to my daughter Hannah Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 HOWTOUSETHISWORKBOOK Part I: Expressive activities: Feelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Activity 1 Creating a safe place to be…: An introduction to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 feeling work Activity 2 Feeling puzzle: What are the names of your feelings? 22 Activity 3 Match the feeling game: Recognizing your feelings . . 25 Activity 4 Faces collage: Learning what emotions are expressed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 on faces Activity 5 Feeling faces: Draw a face to match the feeling word . 29 Activity 6 Feeling words: Building a vocabulary of feeling words 31 Activity 7 Finish the sentence…: Choose a feeling word from the . . . . . . . . . 37 vocabulary list to end these sentences Activity 8 What color are my feelings?: Find out what color your . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 feelings are Activity 9 Feelings rainbow: Expressing your feelings through . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 colors Part II: Expressive activities: Identifying everyday losses . . . 45 Activity 10 Saying goodbye is hard to do: Learning about . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 everyday closures Activity 11 Talking about losses of pets or toys: Recognizing, . . . . . 52 talking about, and drawing pet or toy losses Activity 12 Good memories: Gathering memories . . . . . . . . . 54 Activity 13 Memory boxes: A place to honor . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Activity 14 New perspectives: A new way to remember and feel . 59 Part III: Approaching the loss experience through fiction . . 63 Activity 15 Story time: Lilly has to say goodbye… . . . . . . . . 65 Part IV: Creating groups: Four-week curriculum . . . . . . . . 73 Tools and templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 APPENDIXACOVERPAGETOBEUSEDIFEXERCISESARETOBEMADEINTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 APERSONALIZEDBOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 APPENDIXBFEELINGSVOCABULARYLIST APPENDIXCUK,EU,USANDCANADIANRESOURCES;INTERNATIONALWEB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 RESOURCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 APPENDIXDRECOMMENDEDREADING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 APPENDIXEHANDOUTSA1–A4 APPENDIXFGROUPSCREENINGQUESTIONNAIRE;GROUPEVALUATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 ACTIVITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 ABOUTTHEAUTHOR
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