Grief
A humans response to a death or a loss
What is Grief?
The feeling of loosing something or someone
What is loss?
The verbal or nonverbal process in which someone provides emotional help, comfort, or assistance
What is support?
before this age, the child only experiences environmental changes as they cannot grasp the concept of death
What is age 3?
Over ___ grief becomes more manageable
What is time?
There are many different ___ of losses
What is types?
Who should not hide their grief from children?
What are adults?
What is ages 6-8?
The most common mental health disorder that is a result from grief
What is depression?
The different reactions or feelings that come from loss
What are mental and physical reactions?
Give the child a variety of ____ in how they may want to cope
What are choices/options?
At this age they realize death is serious and bad things can happen to people. Death can also interfere with their development process at this age. Peer relationships are very important at this age
The differences in this can produce different reactions to a death or loss (can be measured numerically)
What is age?
The two most common emotions that come from loss
What is guilt and anger?
The children must ___ about the person they have loss, so they can remember them and the memories
What is talk?
Age where children express their grief through small burst, as they are unable to tolerate the intensity of grief
What is preschoolers (3-5)?
The numerical amount of stages of grief
What is 5?
This may never be the same for an individual after the loss of someone
What is life?
Most common way to help a child deal/cope with grief
What is therapy/counseling?
At this age they are aware death is final, and they want to fit in so they are more likely to hide their feelings. Often express anger and anxiety
What is teenagers?