By Catherine L. Thorington
Liberty University Psychology Student

Helping Bereaved Children edited by Nancy Boyd Webb is a book written as a tool for Thantologisits, psychologists, clergy and social workers who specialize in grief counseling of children. Webb is a clinical social worker whose specialty is play therapy. She is professor on the faculty of Fordham University and is the editor of The Guilford Press book series Social Work Practice with Children and Families (Webb).Among her many other tasks and publications Webb has written several books and produced a video entitled Techniques of Play Therapy (Webb) for professionals that work in the fields of child development and grief therapy. After working with children for many years Nancy Boyd Webb discovered that there was a lack of resources to help professionals in the growing field of child grief. Helping Bereaved Children is a resource that parents social workers teachers’ laymen and professionals can use to develop skills such as play therapy when working with children who have experienced a loss. Webb uses case studies, her own other therapists that contributed to this book as examples to teach professionals how to use and implement play therapy when working with a grieving child.

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By Danna Hayes
Libery University Psychology Student

Having two 11-year-old girls (one my natural daughter and one my step-daughter), I have to admit that the title of this book caught my eye, especially because in a big yellow star at the top right corner states, “Featuring a Step-by-Step Plan for Conflict Resolution.”  I do not think it is any kind of secret that pre-teen girls certainly have their share of conflicts, and since having two of them have increased this number, I was certainly willing to find out the information and suggestions that Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D.,  had to offer in her book, and honestly I was not terribly disappointed.

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