Dr, Tom Demaria has developed a number of topical articles on bereavement for the Coalition to Support Grieving Students. Please read these articles to help support your grieving students.

Mini-Articles Library

• Grief Triggers: Supporting Grieving Children: What To Know About Grief Triggers, Support Grieving Students: Use These 7 Steps to Respond to Grief Triggers, Support Grieving Children: Frame Lessons in Ways That Minimize Grief Triggers
•   Other Reactions: Grieving Children’s Reactions Sometimes Confuse Adults; Writing, Art and Play: Non-Verbal Ways to Support Grieving Children
•   Guilt and Shame: Guilt, Shame and Grief: Understand Common Reactions in Students;  These 2 Steps Can Help Grieving Children Deal with Guilt and Shame
•   Concepts of Death: 4 Concepts About Death That Children Need To Know  
•  Coordinating Services & Supporting Transitions: Support for Grieving Students: A Team Makes It Happen
• Cultural Sensitivity: Grief Across Cultures: Teacher Worries About "Doing Something Wrong"
• Funeral Attendance: To Help Grieving Families, Offer Advice on Funeral Attendance
•  Connecting With Families:9 Goals For Communicating With Grieving Families
•  Remembrance: Remembrance & Bereavement on Memorial Day
•  Peer Support for Grieving Students: Your Mommy Died
• What NOT To Say: Supporting Grieving Students: What NOT To Say
• Grief Over the Holidays: Educators Can Help Students Cope
• Social Media: Social Media & Grieving Children: Helpful or Harmful?
• Impact on Learning: For Grieving Students: Keep Academic Challenges from Becoming Academic Failures; Difficulty Concentrating: A Hallmark of Grief; Anticipate Challenges to Learning Among Grieving Students