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Overcoming Loss

Overcoming Loss

Activities and Stories to Help Transform Children's Grief and Loss

Julia Sorensen
Illustrated by Maryam Ahmad

Paperback: £19.99 / $35.00

2008, 279.4mm x 216mm / 11in x 8.5in, 144pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-646-3, BIC 2: JHBZ JMC

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Introduction. How to use this workbook. PART I: Expressive activities : Feelings. Activity 1 – Creating a safe place to be…: An introduction to feeling work. Activity 2 – Feeling puzzle: What are the names of your feelings? Activity 3 – Match the feeling game: Recognizing your feelings. Activity 4 – Faces collage: Learning what emotions are expressed on faces. Activity 5 – Feeling faces: Draw a face to match the feeling word. Activity 6 – Feeling words: Building a vocabulary of feeling words. Activity 7 – Finish the sentence…: Choose a feeling word from the vocabulary list to end these sentences. Activity 8 – What color are my feelings? Find out what color your feelings are. Activity 9 – Feelings rainbow: Expressing your feelings through colors. PART II: Expressive activities: Identifying everyday losses. Activity 10 – Saying goodbye is hard to do: Learning about everyday closures. Activity 11 – Talking about losses of pets or toys: Recognizing, talking about, and drawing pet or toy losses. Activity 12 – Good memories: Gathering memories. Activity 13 – Memory boxes: A place to honor. Activity 14 – New perspectives: A new way to remember and feel. PART III: Approaching the loss experience through fiction. Activity 15 – Story time: Lilly has to say goodbye PART IV: Creating Groups: Four-week curriculum. Tools and templates: Appendix A: Cover page to be used if exercises are to be made into a personalized book. Appendix B: Feelings vocabulary list. Appendix C: US, Canadian, UK and EU resources; international web resources. Appendix D: Recommended reading. Appendix E: Handouts A1-A4. Appendix F: Group screening questionnaire and group evaluation activity. About the author.