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OVERALL DESCRIPTION Suffering is not restricted by age, not prohibited to the young. Victor Frankel, in his book Man's Search for Meaning, writes that we must make larger sense out of our suffering. To survive is to find meaning in the suffering. Each person must find out for himself or herself what the purpose of his suffering is, no one can fix it for anyone else. No stranger to suffering, Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D., knows about the trauma of loss and its aftermath from the inside out. In his compassionate work with coping with loss, he argues that traditional theories of grief are too superficial and simplistic. He has developed a fresh theory of grieving as a process of a meaning reconstruction, which he discusses in the first of the two interviews in this collection. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Assess the meaning and impact of loss in children and adolescents, using a narrative therapy approach. CURRICULUM SUMMARY Interview #1 Dr. Neimeyer presents his conceptualization of grief an dloss from a narrative-contructivist point of view. He suggests that the problem with using "stage" theories of grief is that they simplistically distort the human experience of grieving. Interview #2 D.W. Winnicott said tht healthy children are better at dealing with death than healthy adults. Every child has a different coping mechanism for dealing with the news that a parent had died, and the most important thing is that the child knows her remaining parent is available. After the initial shock is over, the most important thing the surviving parent can do for his child is to ensure that her life remains stable. Plus, children need adults to help them navigate through the chaos of death, through the many questions, through the magical thinking, through all the intense feelings of grief and loss. The second interview, references the award winning movie Ponette, the (fictional) story of a 4 year old girl whose mother is killed in an accident. There is no greater loss for a child than the loss of her mother. It is a loss that is truly forever. A child's sense of being safe in the world is shattered. Even at Ponette's yound age, she must make meaning for herself, must find a way to go on living. As painful as it is for any of us to accept such a tragedy, imagine the difficulty of coming to terms with this when you don't yet comprehend the whole concept of death in all its finality. Robert Neimeyer, Ph.D., with grief and loss expert, Froma Walsh, Ph.D. share their thoughts with the listener on how to best help young children.
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