Caring for Bereaved Siblings
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Siblings: Art therapy provides a way for grieving children to name things and express feelings.
Psychiatrist Dr. Elena Lister: Children often connect colors and feelings. Art can help them to express their feelings, which can open up the conversation.
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Educating others to talk openly and honestly about illness and death: When you share the unbearable, it becomes bearable.
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Illness and Loss: What is mentionable is manageable.
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Emotion in front of the children: The rule of thumb is you stay several steps LESS upset than they are.
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Siblings: Art therapy provides a way for grieving children to name things and express feelings.
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As parents, we can dose ourselves with the pain, and then regroup for our children.
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Helping the bereaved siblings answer the question, “How many siblings do you have?”
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A psychiatrist recommends against leaving the bedroom of the child who died exactly as it was when they were living.
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Grief in Children: A psychiatrist on signs in your child that you may need to get them professional help.
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For the little sister Kaia: “We’re going to make Havi as big a part of her life as we can.”
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Bereavement: how is the rest of the family doing – son, husband? Talking about it!
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Hayden and Cameron are just part of their surviving siblings’ lives.
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Sanfilippo /MPS: The dreaded question. How many children do you have?
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