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Children's Grief and Loss Issues...and how we can help

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Linda Goldman has worked as a kindergarten, first- and second-grade teacher, and as a guidance counselor in the Baltimore County public school system for 18 years. She recieved her M.S. degree at Loyola College in Maryland in 1977. Mrs. Goldman is certified by the Association for Death Education and Counseling as a grief therapist and educator. She now maintains a private grief therapy practice, working with children, adolescents, women with prenatal loss, and grieving adults

Linda's experience and training in the field of education, coupled with her life experiences and knowledge as a therapist have resulted in a deeply felt desire to help children work with issues of loss and grief.The success of her grief work has led her to educate other caring adults through trainings in school systems and universities including Johns Hopkins Graduate School and U. of Md. School of Social Work/ Advanced Certification Program for Children and Adolecsents, sharing diverse ways of working with children and grief. Linda participated as a consultant for the National Head Start Program and as a panalist in the National Teleconference: When A Parent Dies: How to Help The Child. She was named bythe Washingtonian Magazine as one of the top therapists in the MD, VA. DC area. Presently she is serving on the board of The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) and the advisory board for Hospice Caring.

Linda Goldman is the author of Life and Loss: A Guide To Help Grieving Children (1994, 2000 2nd ed.), Taylor and Francis Publishers, Breaking The Silence: A Guide To Help Children With Complicated Grief (1996),Taylor and Francis Publishers Bart Speaks Out: An Interactive Storybook for Young Children On Suicide (1998) WPS Publishers, and Helping The Grieving Child in the School (2000) a fastback published by Phi Delta Kappan. She has written numerous articles found in the ADEC Forum, The Head Start Journal, The Young Child, and Educational Leadership. Linda has also created a CD-ROM and 3 part video training, Kids Grieve Too on The Grieving Child, Helping the Grieving Child In The Schools, and Children and Complicated Grief (2000), produced by KidsPeace.