This handout is designed to help children and teens understand death by suicide and process complex feelings, questions, and beliefs.
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This handout is designed to help children and teens understand death by suicide and process complex feelings, questions, and beliefs.
Helping a child deal with major life changes and anticipatory grief can be difficult. Children don’t have the experience to understand as adults do. However, as family members, each child should be included, at their level, in discussions and activities during the illness or death of a loved one. This resource provides guidance on how to include youth in conversations that are honest and age-appropriate.
The Coalition to Support Grieving Students was convened by the New York Life Foundation, a pioneering advocate for the cause of childhood bereavement, and the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement, which is led by pediatrician and childhood bereavement expert David J. Schonfeld, M.D.