2nd Edition

Helping Children with Loss A Guidebook

By Margot Sunderland, Nicky Armstrong Copyright 2022
100 Pages 23 Color Illustrations
by Speechmark

100 Pages 23 Color Illustrations
by Speechmark

Now in a fully updated second edition, this professional guidebook has been created to help adults provide emotional support for children who have experienced the loss of somebody they know, or something they loved. Written in an accessible style and with a sensitive tone, Helping Children with Loss provides adults with a rich vocabulary for mental states and painful emotions, paving the way... Read more

Introduction  Chapter One: Helping Grieving Children with their Painful Feelings  Chapter Two: Helping Grieving Children who Defend Against Feeling their Painful Feelings  Chapter Three: Practical Ways of Enabling Children to Speak About and Work Through Feelings of Loss  Bibliography

Biography

Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, Co-Director of Trauma Informed Schools UK, Honorary Visiting Fellow at London Metropolitan University, Senior Associate Member of the Royal College of Medicine, and Child Psychotherapist with over thirty years’ experience of working with children, teenagers (many in residential care homes) and families. She is also a qualified secondary school teacher.

Margot is author of over twenty books in the field of child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries. Her internationally acclaimed book, ‘The Science of Parenting’ (Dorling Kindersley) won a First Prize in the British Medical Association Medical Book awards and has been voted as one of the best brain books of our time by The Dana Foundation. Dr Sunderland has been studying the neuroscience of adult-child relationships for 17 years. Dr Sunderland is also founding Director of The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, a Higher Education College and Academic Partner of University of East London. The College runs Masters Degrees/Diplomas in Child Psychotherapy, Child Counselling, Parent-Child Therapy and Therapeutic Play.

Nicky Armstrong holds an MA from the Slade School of Fine Art and a BA Hons in Theatre Design from the University of Central England. She has illustrated over 34 books in the mental health field which have been translated into 5 languages/countries. She works full time as an illustrator and fine artist. She has achieved major commissions nationally and internationally in mural work and fine art.