Abstract
Children represent an often-forgotten group of mourners. Helping professionals must be cautious about making assumptions regarding the inherent resilience of children. Moreover, helping professionals need to avoid minimizing the deleterious effects of grief on young clients. Grief impacts all children differently. Because children's grief often manifests differently than adults' grief, bereaved children can go underassessed and undertreated. Grief support groups in local school settings can be an efficacious way of supporting bereaved youth. The facilitative nature of peer support can promote healing through elements of universality and shared experiences. Due to their developmental level, students may benefit from knowing a fellow student has navigated something similar. In this chapter, the authors detail a grief support group model for mental health professionals tending to the unique mental health needs of bereaved youth.
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