How Children Grieve: What Adults Miss, and What They Can Do to Help

An informative and accessible guide to understanding childhood grief at every age, this empathetic and thoughtful guide will help caretakers to support children mourning after loss.

From Dr. Corinne Masur, an award-winning clinical psychologist specializing in grief and mourning, comes a necessary and impactful guide to understanding children's grief from the inside and to guiding children through loss, from the death of a parent and other family members, to the loss of friends, pets, and even the family home. Dr. Masur describes how to understand, help and guide children at each age and stage of development and uses her own childhood experience with loss through empathetic yet clinically informed advice in this important guide.

When Dr. Masur was fourteen years old, her father died. Like most children and teens facing loss, Masur didn't know how to handle her grief, and she was never encouraged to acknowledge or share what she was feeling with her family, teachers, or friends. Her experience of shock and emotional paralysis around her loss is what led her to become an expert in childhood grief in order to help grieving children and to help others to support the children in their lives who have experienced loss.

As a psychologist and child psychoanalyst, Dr. Masur has helped many children recognize and express their feelings after loss. In How Children Grieve, Masur shares her expertise with caregivers of all kinds, giving them the tools they need to help a child or teenager to mourn, to move forward, and to make meaning of terrible loss.

Author: Corinne Masur
Publisher: Alcove Press
Published: 07/09/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781639106721

About the Author
Dr. Corinne Masur is a clinical psychologist, a child and adult Supervising Psychoanalyst and an Adult Personal Analyst at The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (PCOP) and is on the faculty there as well as at the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. She worked with children of all ages for forty-five years, and now works with parents, teenagers and adults, supervises other clinicians, teaches, and runs parenting groups. Dr. Masur is the author of Flirting With Death: Psychoanalysts Consider Mortality; Finding the Piggle: Reconsidering D.W. Winnicott's Most Famous Child Case; When a Child Grieves, a book on grief in childhood for a professional audience; and the parenting blog Thoughtful Parenting. She is a sought after speaker and interviewee.

www.thoughtfulparenting.org