Children & Teens

Healing a Child's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers A child you care about is grieving. But how can you help? This book offers 100 practical, kid-friendly ideas for helping children mourn well so they can grow to...

Helping the Grieving Student: A Guide for Teachers Developed by The Dougy Center. This guidebook is an essential resource for elementary, middle and high school teachers who encounter a grieving student. Drawn from stories, suggestions and insight shared...

Helping Children Grieve and Grow: A Guide for Those Who Care With colorful illustrations and large print throughout Helping Children Grieve and Grow is easy to understand and immensely useful. The information provided is broad in scope, yet it is so...

Helping Children Cope with Death This guidebook offers a comprehensive, easy-to-read overview of how children grieve and strategies to support them. Based on The Dougy Center’s work with thousands of grieving children and their families, you will...

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas When you’re a teen, the death of someone you love can be especially difficult. Being a teen is hard enough; being a grieving teen can feel completely overwhelming. This book was written to...

Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers If you want to help a grieving teen but aren’t sure how, this book offers 100 practical, realistic ideas and suggested ideas. Its simple, easy-to-use format...

Griefjourney: Notes on Grief for Teens, Young Adults and Anyone Who Is Grieving Talks about the “Firsts” of grief, changes and feeling helpless, then goes into the pain of grief, coping, holidays, hope, saying goodbye, and how our love lives...

Gifts of Life: An Activity Book About Someone Who is Very Special To Me and Who is Also Very Sick Designed to help younger children cope with the impending death of someone they love by allowing them to draw and color the pictures that tell their own...

Good-bye My Friend: Grieving the Loss of a Pet This compassionate book comforts those who are grieving the death of a pet by acknowledging the need, as well as the right, to grieve the loss of a beloved companion. The authors explain (in 32 well-written...

(formerly Gifts of Life for Teens) This book was created to give you a place to explore your feelings. Your place might include journaling, reading, talking or not talking. It may encourage you to continue to find normalcy in your daily life without...

Each snowflake is different, and everyone shows grief differently. After the death of his father, Little Tree begins to learn how to cope with his feelings and start the healing process. With the help and support of his family and friends, Little Tree...

The purpose of this book is to assist school personnel, primarily the classroom teacher, in being a positive, significant caregiver for the bereaved students. This book is also meant to aid parents of grieving students and to provide help for the student...