Crisis/Trauma
Taken from ASCA: Helping Kids During Crisis
- Try and keep routines as normal as possible. Kids gain security from the predictability of routine, including attending school.
- Limit exposure to television and the news.
- Be honest with kids and share with them as much information as they are developmentally able to handle.
- Listen to kids’ fears and concerns.
- Reassure kids that the world is a good place to be, but that there are people who do bad things.
- Parents and adults need to first deal with and assess their own responses to crisis and stress.
- Rebuild and reaffirm attachments and relationships.
Here are some other resources and links on good tips about how to talk to kids and help kids cope with traumatic events.
What Is Child Trauma?
Helping Children Cope with Frightening News
Help Your Child Manage Distress
Safety/Crisis Resources
What Is Child Trauma?
Helping Children Cope with Frightening News
Help Your Child Manage Distress
Safety/Crisis Resources
Suggested Books
Books For Children (Kansas City Hospice Bibliography):
Lots of other books for kids on death and grief:
http://booksthathealkids.blogspot.com/search/label/death%20and%20grief
Books for Adults (Kansas City Hospice Bibliography):
Books For Children (Kansas City Hospice Bibliography):
- A Terrible Thing Happened by: Margaret M. Holmes
- Reactions by: Allison Salloum
- Why Did it Happen? by: Janice Cohen (1994 )
- After the Funeral by: Jane Loretta Winsch
- A Book for You from Kids Like You by: Rachel Burrell and Barbara Coe
- First Snow by: Helen Coutant
- When Dinosaurs Die by: Laurene Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
Lots of other books for kids on death and grief:
http://booksthathealkids.blogspot.com/search/label/death%20and%20grief
Books for Adults (Kansas City Hospice Bibliography):
- The Scared Child: Helping Kids Overcome Traumatic Events by: John Wiley
- Explaining Death to Children by: Earl Grollman
- The Grieving Child: A Parent's Guidebook by: Helen Fitzgerald
- How Do We Tell the Children? by: Schaefer Lyons
- Keys to Helping Children Deal with Death and Grief by: Joy Johnson
- Talking about Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child by: Earl Grollman