The Art of Healing Childhood Grief: A School-Based Expressive Arts Program Promoting Social and Emotional Literacy

The Art of Healing Childhood Grief is a ground breaking timely tool developed to bring a spirit of playfulness and hope into the world of a grieving child. The Art of Healing Childhood Grief contains everything a bereavement facilitator school counselor or mental health professional needs to successfully design a safe child friendly program to fit any loss situation so children can grieve...and heal. Drawing on a rich heritage of psychological educational primary prevention and creative traditions Black and Simpson have designed and implemented an innovative school-based support program to usher in a new approach to childhood grief. Now in its fourth edition this labor of love is filled with hundreds of expressive arts activities and a sequential curriculum organized in an easy to access format for professionals and lay facilitators to reference when working with an individual child a small group of children or an entire school. Included in this manual is a chapter on responding to the needs of children children in the aftermath of death crises such as suicide homicide terrorist attacks and war.