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Article: Children & Loss: Teachers serve as a crucial emotional bridge for a child at times of loss. What do we need to know to help students cope?(Brief Article)
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- March 1, 2001
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Humans, by nature, are designed to grow, learn, work, and play in groups. By the time a child is 10, he or she has created and maintained dozens of key relationships--parents, siblings, friends, teachers, and more. Throughout life, these relationships satisfy our primary needs. It is the brain that allows these social connections. Unique neural systems change in response to the waxing and waning of relationships in our lives--forming a landscape created by the history of our emotional experiences. Relationships can bring us comfort, safety and joy. Yet relationships can change or even end. And then we experience painful emotions.
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