Article: Helping children cope with death. (strategies for helping children to deal with the death of a loved one)(Brief Article)

Article from:: USA TODAY
Article date:: December 1, 1996

All children sometimes feel vulnerable and afraid. but these feelings become accentuated if some one close to them dies, notes Radford University psychology professor Lois Kugler. How a youngster copes with death depends upon many things, including past losses. stresses. the family support system, and the child's personality style. Younger children. for example, have little or no sense of the permanency of death and there may be nothing a parent can do to change that perception. "Anxiety can interfere with understanding. Denial is a way of coping."

However, parents should avoid using euphemisms for death that imply the person can come back. "Saying that the ...

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