When Something Terrible Happens: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief

Rating:
Summary: great therapeutic tool
Review: I'm a child therapist and have used this book numerous times with emotionally disturbed children. It helps children explore feelings in a non-threatening and strengths-focused manner. In addition, it is general enough for kids to personalize it with whatever issue happens to be troubling them. They love being the illustrator of a book and the directed art therapy format makes it simple to use for the therapist. My only complaint is that there is some overlap with her (Ms Heegaard's) other books (pages on feelings identification), so if you choose to do another with the same child, he/she has seen it before.

Rating:
Summary: great therapeutic tool
Review: I'm a child therapist and have used this book numerous times with emotionally disturbed children. It helps children explore feelings in a non-threatening and strengths-focused manner. In addition, it is general enough for kids to personalize it with whatever issue happens to be troubling them. They love being the illustrator of a book and the directed art therapy format makes it simple to use for the therapist. My only complaint is that there is some overlap with her (Ms Heegaard's) other books (pages on feelings identification), so if you choose to do another with the same child, he/she has seen it before.