Independent Thinking On... Loss

Written from the personal experience of a parent and his three children, 'Independent Thinking on... Loss' is a book about bereavement for schools details the ways in which schools can help their pupils come to terms with the death of a parent. The book encourages educators to view death and bereavement as something that can be acknowledged and talked about in school, and offer clear guidelines that will make a difference as to how a school can support a bereaved child in their midst. They also explore how conversations and actions little ones, whole-school ones, genuine ones, professional ones, personal ones in the school setting can make an awful scenario just that little bit easier for children to deal with. This book is a start.