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Understanding Children’s Unique
Reactions to Grief
Children grieve, but their reactions are different from adults. Often they experience grief in small amounts and for brief periods of time. They may be sad or crying one minute and happily playing the next. Children have short attention spans and are easily distracted from grief episodes. They can become emotionally overwhelmed with extensive periods of grief so they tend to “dose” themselves with small amounts of grieving at a time.
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