Dealing with Loss During COVID-19: Help for Children and Families
With the processes of grief and mourning now disrupted by social distancing during COVID-19, it's difficult to truly mark a passing and share the pain. Children of different ages understand death very differently and may need different supports. In addition, they often don't express grief in the same way that adolescents and adults do. Judith Crowell, MD, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Stony Brook Medicine provides important insights and tips on what you can do to help.
Funerals in the Time of a Pandemic a Toolkit for Children & Families
Funerals are our expression of grief and a transition into an unknown future without someone we love. Funerals may be most important to children because these rituals help them understand that someone is gone and what it means to be dead. During a pandemic, when large groups cannot gather or move freely or easily, funerals may need reconsideration. This brief guide by the Good Grief Foundation provides some ideas to ensure that you and the children in your lives have the opportunity to mourn.