can model appropriate attitudes toward people with HIV/AIDS, sexuality, and death. As children express their feelings, respond with sensitivity and warmth and maintain eye contact. Be a model of healthy grieving. Describe your thoughts and feelings as a means of validating their process. Do not share with children to help yoursef feel better. To put children in the role of caretaker confuses them and may cause them to repress emotions. As the adult, your role is to comfort children. Support their grieving process both before and after the person's death. Responding to children's needs can make a critical difference in whether their first experience with AIDS and/or death is a helpful or harmful part of their emotional growth.
This focus paper will explore issues related to talking to children about people they know who have HIV/AIDS. Two helpful resources are at the end of this paper: one describes how children at different age levels grieve and ways adults can support them; the other is a bibliography which lists resources on AIDS, sexuality, and grieving available for adults and for children.
Behavior speaks louder than words. Adults can model appropriate attitudes toward people with HIV/AIDS, sexuality, and death. As children express their feelings, respond with sensitivity and warmth and maintain eye contact. Be a model of healthy grieving. Describe your thoughts and feelings as a means of validating their process. Do not share with children to help yoursef feel better. To put children in the role of caretaker confuses them and may cause them to repress emotions. As the adult, your role is to comfort children. Support their grieving process both before and after the person's death. Responding to children's needs can make a critical difference in whether their first experience with AIDS and/or death is a helpful or harmful part of their emotional growth.
This focus paper will explore issues related to talking to children about people they know who have HIV/AIDS. Two helpful resources are at the end of this paper: one describes how children at different age levels grieve and ways adults can support them; the other is a bibliography which lists resources on AIDS, sexuality, and grieving available for adults and for children.B
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