Are suffering from the pain of loss or separation from someone or something they love deeply
Have had a parent, relative or important friend leave or die
Are obsessed with their absent parent
Have lost someone they love, but have never really mourned
Are trying to manage all their painful feelings of loss by themselves
Feel that they have lost the love of someone they love deeply
Are suffering from separation anxiety
Are adopted or fostered children who miss their birth parent terribly
The guidebook focuses on a key feeling and is written in very user-friendly language, covering the most relevant psychotherapeutic and neurobiological theories for that feeling.
Includes what children themselves have said about what it is like for them; how they have coped wit the feeling in ways which cause harm to self or others, and the consequences of that, and how they could have coped well.
Provides exercises, tasks and ideas for things to say and do to help children. The exercises and ideas are specifically designed to help a child think about, express and process the feeling to the point of resolution. Many of the exercises offered will support children in finding creative, imaginative and playful ways to communicate their feelings.
Enable child professionals to recognize the unresolved feeling behind the behaviour and to respond correctly to help the child work through that feeling to the point of resolution.
