Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief-Suicide,Homoicide,AIDS,Violence and Abuse

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Summary: Good resource
Review: Good for caring perfessionals. A very clear book

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Summary: Outstanding and Practical
Review: Linda Goldman has again written an excellent resource on traumatic grief issues. Her in-depth understanding of traumatized children allows the reader to obtain deeper understanding and techniques for working with children. I think that any professional working with traumatic grief issues and children would highly benefit from this book.

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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This book is an excellent resource for parents, caregivers, and children dealing with the complex facets of grief. The author speaks from her heart, and obviously understands these issues at a personal level. Her techniques in speaking to children, and the child in each of us, through the use of photos, children's artwork, and creative writing is a wonderful way for the observer/reader to focus on what these pictures mean to the individual. This in turn can lead to an inner dialogue and a unique individual healing process.

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Summary: A creative, unique, and wonderful book.
Review: This book is very well thought out. It is a very easy and smooth read. There are appropriate pictures and child artwork to help convey messages in the book. This book would be truely helpful to anyone dealing with a suffering child. I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: This book really helped me
Review: This book was extremely helpful to me in dealing with a personal complicated grief event. I think it would be a critical resource for teachers and counselors. As our world continues to stuggle with these issues that touch all our lives in some way, it is a resource useful for us all.


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Summary: Magnificent.
Review: This wonderful book demonstrates in a very clear and helpful way how to deal with kids suffering from complicated grief such as suicide, homicide, AIDS, violence, and abuse. Therapeutic interventions coupled with case studies and children's artwork and creative writing create a full spectrum of knowledge for therapists, educators and other caring adults. The chapter on a child-oriented memorial service is state-of-the-art. This book from Goldman is a goldmine!

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: While the title of this book is impressive and promisesinformation on working with grieving children, the book itself onlypresents a very superficial view of the process of working withcomplicated grief in children. The author speaks with great compassionand obviously has experience in the area of bereavement, but largetypeface and use of photographs of children predominate the text--- Iwould have preferred more information and less drama, more of theauthor's expertise and advice in lieu of photos. Yes, creativeactivities are mentioned, but no real depth or rationale is providedfor their use in grief work...