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Please click on book cover for more information about this book	Life and Loss    2nd Edition Please click on book cover for more information about this book and how to order it. A Guide to Help Grieving Children. * Be sure you get new 2nd edition (January,2000) by Linda Goldman ORDERING INFORMATION
Please click on book cover for more information about this book	Breaking the Silence Please click on book cover for more information about this book and how to order it. A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief: Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse.   by Linda Goldman ORDERING INFORMATION
Please click on book cover for more information about this book	Bart Speaks Out Please click on book cover for more information about this book and how to order it. Breaking the Silence on Suicide: An Interactive Story for Children.   by Linda Goldman ORDERING INFORMATION
Please click on book cover for more information about this book	Raising Our Children To Be Resilient: A Guide To Helping Children Cope With Trauma in Today's World by Linda Goldman (Paperback - December 30, 2004) ORDERING INFORMATION
	ADEC - Association for Death Education and Counseling        Presents A Look at Children's Grief      by Linda Goldman, MD, LCPC,   2001 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 Click Here for Ordering Information
Please click on book cover for more  information about this book	Children Also Grieve: Talking about Death and Healing by Linda Goldman Paperback - October, 2005 ORDERING INFORMATION
Please click on book cover for more  information about this book	Coming Out, Coming In          Nurturing the Well-Being and Inclusion of          Gay Youth in Mainstream Society   by Linda Goldman Please click on book cover for more information about this book and how to order it. Paperback - October 2007/ 320pp Published by Routledge/ Taylor Francis Group ORDERING INFORMATION

 

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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.

Text adapted with permission from Life and Loss: A Guide to Help Grievng Children, Breaking the Silence: A Guide To Help Children With Complicated Grief: Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse and Helping The Grieving Child in the School Healing Magazine (Kidspeace)and Growing Up Fast (NES).
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