Health and Wellbeing
Traumatic Grief and Loss: What Children Need
Tell whether a bereaved child is grieving or stuck in traumatic grief, and know how your school can support them.
- 41 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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If you need help now
- If someone is in danger, call 999.
- For urgent mental health help, call NHS 111.
- Samaritans: call 116 123, any time.
- Shout: text SHOUT to 85258.
- Childline (for children and young people): 0800 1111.
- Papyrus HOPELINEUK (suicide, under 35s): 0800 068 4141.
What you'll learn
- Tell the difference between typical grief and traumatic grief
- Track warning signs over time with an assessment grid
- Use the six-point plan to organise in-school support
- Talk about death with children in clear, plain language
- Use books, drawing and play with children who find it hard to talk
About this course
Grieving children often step in and out of their sadness, playing happily one minute and in tears the next. That's healthy. Some children can't do it. Something about the death is too much to process, and they get stuck with intense feelings and upsetting thoughts that don't let up.
A therapist who has worked with hundreds of bereaved children shows you how to tell the two apart. An assessment grid helps you track how often, how badly and for how long warning signs like withdrawal or hopelessness appear. The six-point support plan covers a trusted adult, supervision for staff, close contact with home and holding on to hope for the child.
There's practical advice on talking about death in plain words, without "gone to sleep" or "up in the clouds", and on reaching children who can't or won't talk.
- For early career teachers, mental health leads and 5 other roles. All phases.
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