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T.A.P.S. Children’s Grief Guide

Created by: T.A.P.S

Developmental StagesTragic Events

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The death of a family member will have a lifelong impact on children. This guide can help you understand how grief affects children, and it offers ways to help children through the grieving process. This guide includes the following discussions: challenges for military children, coping strategies and talking to children.

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