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Why are adults rereluctant to help student grievers? How can we be trained to better equip...

Why are adults rereluctant to help student grievers? How can we be trained to better equip children in supporting their grief?

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Student grievers

Grief is the pain of mind arising from a significant personal loss or misfortune. Student grievers often fail to communicate their condition to an adult. Adult also are reluctant to help student grievers. The causes of reluctancy to help students are:

* Misconception that the students will not feel intensely sad. They may have superficial sadness and they may forget misshapen fast.

* Adults don't want children to be in grief, we want them to be free and carefree. At the same time we don't want to accept that our children is in grief and don't want to help them in passing through the stages.

* Adults think that the grief is having outward symptoms like always crying, sad, loss af appetite and tearfulness. If a student doesn't cry, people think that she is not in grief.

How can we be trained to support children in grief :

To get equipped to support the children in their Grief , one has to get training in and understand thoroughly regarding:

* Grief process ( causes, stages and reactions and its effects)

* Factors affecting grief process ( nature of death, social support system, nature of relationship)

* learn about the developmental stages and emotions of a child.

* Learn about the common responses to grief by the child; physical, emotional, academics and spiritual etc.

* learn to work with students , and should know that they may have mood swings, when they are in grief.

* understand about the different support groups in the community that helps such students.

* be a good listener

* Allow the student to show grief, anger , sorrow and other feelings

* one has to do planning to; Reorient them about the routine of the school, provide them flexibility but with limits.

* one has to have courage to tell the grieving student that the death is an inevitable process of one's life.

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