Life is like the seasons: responding to change, loss, and grief through a peer based education program
Graham, AP 2004, 'Life is like the seasons: responding to change, loss, and grief through a peer based education program', Childhood Education, vol. 80, no. 6, pp. 317-321.
ANZSRC Fields of Research
1301 Education Systems
Abstract
The experience of loss can place children and young people in a vulnerable position as it affects their development and overall emotional and social wellbeing (Davies, 1991; Tyson-Rawson, 1996). Situations that trigger feelings of loss can include family breakdown, the death of a relative or friend, parental unemployment, abuse, serious illness, injury, disability, loss of a pet, or imprisonment of a family member. Losses also can be the result of a change of house, school, neighborhood, community, friends, and financial security. For some children and young people, such experiences culminate with the loss of a dream or ideal, symbols, traditions , and routines.
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