Helping Children Cope with Grief during a War
Original Publication Date:
October 7, 2025
Last Updated:
October 7, 2025
Estimated Read Time:
< 1 minute
Helping Children Cope with Grief During a War is an interactive web-based leaflet, developed to help people understand how children of different ages experience loss and grief; how to talk to them about it, and how to help them cope with the death of a loved one during war and displacement. It is presented as a leaflet that answers many questions a caregiver may have, such as Do children grieve?, Should I tell my children if someone they love has died?, What is the best way to tell them?
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