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ERIC Number: EJ654346
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-1082-3301
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The Grieving Process in Children: Strategies for Understanding, Educating, and Reconciling Children's Perceptions of Death.
Willis, Clarissa A.
Early Childhood Education Journal, v29 n4 p221-26 Sum 2002
Provides an overview of how young children understand death, and offers concrete strategies for talking to children about death and suggestions for teachers about how to help children of various ages through grief and mourning. Highlights developmental differences in four components of children's understanding of death: irreversibility, finality, inevitability, and causality. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Bereavement, Childhood Attitudes, Death, Early Childhood Education, Grief, Stress Variables, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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