Crisis, Grief, and Loss... and How to Help Your Students Through It

This book provides crisis intervention techniques, referral procedures, a synopsis of research on the grief process, principles for helping students through crisis, and a bibliography for classroom teachers, counselors, tutors, and parents to use in the aftermath of crisis. Every teacher should have a copy.?
At any given time, between 30% and 100% of our students can be somewhere in the grief process. When they are in crisis, their behavior and their capacity to learn changes. Our techniques for reaching them must change too.
    
Understanding Grief Reactions describes the grief process and how our students are affected

    * Age-Typical Responses to Grief
    * The Grief Cycle/Spiral
    * Understanding Loss
    * Shock/Denial
    * Anger and Emotions
    * Bargaining
    * Depression
    * Acceptance and Recovery
    * Facing Our Own Grief
   

Principles for Helping offers practical guidelines for helping those students and colleagues who are in the process of grieving

    * In Times of Crisis ...
    * Listen
    * Be There
    * Reach Out
    * Help Keep Them Focused
    * Help Them Find Their Own Answers
    * Crisis Suicide Intervention Guideline
   

Guidance Tools helps schools implement support structures which reinforce academics while recognizing the needs of those who are in grief

    * Counseling to Reinforce the Curriculum
    * Building on Student Strengths
    * Monitoring
    * Intervention/Prevention Counseling
    * Mentoring
    * Confidentiality
    * Enhancing Student Self-Esteem
   

Guidelines and Curriculum offers help to the classroom teacher and those leading support groups for children stuck in grief

    * Active Listening
    * When You're Angry, You Both Can Win

Focus: Teacher K-12