Journal Guides for Children
Kids’ Survival Guide: When Parents Separate
A cram-packed journal with 120 pages of tailormade activities, created to help children manage when their parents separate. Created by headteacher and Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist Deborah Brown.
This guide is aimed at children aged 7-11 years and the artwork has been designed to allow children to colour in the monster characters and personalise their journal.
Kids’ Helpful Guide: When A Loved One Dies By Suicide
A thoughtful and gentle journal with 120 pages of tailormade tasks, created to help children manage when a loved one dies by suicide. Created by headteacher and Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist Deborah Brown.
This guide is aimed at children aged 7-11 years and the artwork has been designed to allow children to colour in the monster characters and personalise their journal.
Lessons in Loss
**NEW BOOK**
Our book Lessons in Loss is a professional guide and personal journey about grief recovery. Due to be published in 2023 the book offers an invaluable guide for teachers, parents and professionals who are seeking to help children and young people deal with loss.
Sample Pages
Here you can download and read some sample pages of the book in pdf form…
Further Reading
I’m not just here to recommend my own book. As part of my many lectures and seminars on grief recovery I have collated an extensive list of useful reading material for parents, teachers and professionals. Here are just a few:
Dix, P. (2017). When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour. Independent Thinking Press.
Gutiérrez IT, M. P. (2014). Affective dimensions of death: Children’s books, questions, and understandings [Monograph]. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.
James, J. W., & Friedman, R. (2017). The Grief Recovery Handbook
James, J. W., Friedman, R., & Matthews, D. L. (2020). When Children Grieve: For Adults to Help Children Deal with Death, Divorce, Pet Loss, Moving, and Other Losses. HarperCollins Publishers.
Kübler-Ross, D. E. (1969). On Death and Dying.
Kubler-Ross, E., & Kessler, D. (2005). On Grief and Grieving.
Mallouk, P., & Robbins, T. (2019). The Path. Simon & Schuster UK.
Rosen, M. (2021). Many Different Kinds of Love. Ebury Press.
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