Describe the approaches you would take to help a 10-year-old client and a 4-year-old client process and work through the loss. In your description, explain how you would integrate each child’s developmental stage into your work with them.

Order Instructions
To prepare:

Review the Learning Resources on family disruption, loss, death, and grief in childhood.
Choose one of the following types of loss and research how this type of loss impacts children. You may use the textbook, but you should also identify at least 3 additional pieces of scholarly literature from the Walden Library.
Divorce
Community Violence
Death of a Sibling
Imagine that you are a social worker working with two different clients who are experiencing this loss: a 10-year-old and a 4-year-old.
Consider how the two clients might experience the loss differently and how your social work approach might vary based on the client’s developmental stage.
BY DAY 7
Submit a 3-page paper addressing the following:

Using evidence from the literature, explain how the loss impacts children.
Describe two best practices social workers can employ when working with children experiencing this type of loss.
Describe the approaches you would take to help a 10-year-old client and a 4-year-old client process and work through the loss. In your description, explain how you would integrate each child’s developmental stage into your work with them.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8794619/
https://speakinggrief.org/get-better-at-grief/understanding-grief/kids-grieve-differently