CD-ROM program of 2 seminar modules, each 1 hour in length:
Produced in 2001 for attendees of 23rd ADEC Annual Conference
*Module 1 - Children's Loss and Grief
*Module 2- Grief Resolution
Techniques
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Children entering this new millennium are faced with life
issues that were unspeakable to us growing up as children. Death related tragedies such as
suicide, homicide, and AIDS, and non-death related traumas such as divorce and separation,
foster care and abandonment, bullying and terrorism, and abuse and violence have left our
children sitting alone in their homes, unfocused and unmotivated in their classrooms, and
terrorized in their communities. They are overwhelmed with their feelings and distracted
by their thoughts.
Survivorship of these traumas creates for any child a loss of their assumptive
world of safety, protection, and predictability. The role of the media as a surrogate
communal parent and extended family further creates this same traumatic loss of this
assumptive world for many if not most of our children.
Children naturally assume their world will be filled with safety, kindness, and meaning as
they attempt to answer the universal questions of who am I and why am I here. All too
often these qualities seem to disappears into a nightmarish universe of randomness,
isolation, and unpredictability. This leaves many of todayıs young people immersed in a
new assumption: There is no future. There is no safety. There is no connectedness or
meaning to my life. By joining together as a global grief team, caring adults can
co-create an assumptive world that again provides a childıs birthright to presume love,
generosity, and value will be integral parts of their lives.
We are raising a segment of our youth that are numbed, disconnected from their hearts,
their minds, and their consciousnesses, and choosing all to easily, other alternatives
such as drugs and alcohol, crime and violence as ways of coping with the loss of their
assumptive world. In yesterdayıs world we may have protected ourselves from trauma by
having fire drills in our schools. In todayıs world our kids protect themselves from
danger in the schools by having gun-fire drills. Too many of todayıs school children are
grieving children. So many of our boys and girls are born into a world of grief and loss
issues that live inside their homes and lay waiting for them outside their doorsteps, on
their streets, schoolyards, and classrooms. Increasingly, children are traumatized by
prevailing social and societal loss issues in their families, their schools, their nation,
and their world.
