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    VISTAS Online is an innovative publication produced for ACA by Dr. Garry R. Walz and Dr. Jeanne C. Bleuer of Counseling Outfitters, LLC. Its purpose is to provide a means of capturing the ideas, information and experiences generated by the annual ACA Conference and selected ACA Division Conferences. Papers on a program or practice that has been validated through research or experience may also be submitted. This digital collection of peer-reviewed articles is authored by counselors, for counselors. VISTAS Online contains the full text of over 900 proprietary counseling articles published from 2004 to 2017.

    2011


    Children and Grief: Developmentally Speaking

    Dolores F. Meier and Deanna B. Eddy

    2011

    Working with children requires an understanding of the complexities of childhood grief. In the 1940s, developmental theorists studied the phenomena of grieving children. Early research on children experiencing death of a close loved one concluded that a child had to achieve a level of understanding about self and the finality; death is not reversible and everyone dies (Stroebe, Hansson, Stroebe, Schut, 2001). Several chapters in Stroebe et al. (2001) provided extensive literature reviews.

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