This author explores themes of healing and childhood bereavement. Her work connects art therapy, painting practice, and meditation as pathways to personal growth and coping with difficult life experiences. Her writings offer readers deep insight into the process of recovery and finding inner strength.
Suitable for therapists and educators working with bereaved children, this book addresses the needs both of the child and the care-giver. It offers thorough explanations of the grieving process and the different manifestations it can take, and ten illustrated therapeutic stories to help you explore different types of loss with children.
Picture book for 5-12 years about child bereavement. To be read by a parent, counsellor, teacher to a bereaved child. Full colour illustrations, and a list of questions at the back of the book to help children heal their grief process using creative activities. Isaac is heartbroken when his best friend Freddie dies. His house freezes, and his red jumper turns grey with grief. His friends try to console him but it's only after Isaac receives a special visit from Freddie that he understands love and friendship last forever, and are alive in spirit. Isaac and the Red Jumper will appeal to anyone who is bereaved, and is looking for a creative way to heal. Amanda Seyderhelm is a PTUK Certified Therapeutic Play Practitioner.
Teachers, therapists and parents frequently find themselves ill-equipped to help children struggling with the difficult feelings brought on by situations like the COVID pandemic. The storytelling toolkit will enable children to see themselves as the hero of their own story, and to reinstate a sense of optimism in the face of the pandemic.