Grief in Schools: Basic Knowledge and Advice on Dealing with Dying and Death

The book covers how to deal with grief in schools. Grief reactions of children and adolescents are described and reasons for grief are presented: Death due to chronic illness, sudden deaths such as suicide, accident, and severe targeted violence. Appropriate intervention measures are presented. Finally, the limitations of these intervention measures in schools are discussed. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Trauer an Schulen by Matthias Böhmer and Georges Steffgen, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2021. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and onthe related technologies to support the authors.

About the Author

Dr. Matthias Böhmer, graduate psychologist, psychological psychotherapist, since 2008 at the University of Luxembourg, research in the field of empirical educational research as well as on REBT.

Prof. Dr. Georges Steffgen, Professor of Social and Occupational Psychology at the University of Luxembourg since 2003, graduate psychologist, research on aggression, emotion regulation and health promotion.