Marge Eaton Heegaard Livres

Creates ways for children to explore the fright, confusion, and insecurity caused by traumatic events in their lives.

An excellent resource for helping children learn the basic concepts of illness and various age-appropriate ways of coping with it.

Focusing on emotional development, this art therapy book guides children in understanding and expressing their feelings while fostering sensitivity towards others. It equips them with coping skills for challenging situations. Additionally, it serves as a valuable resource for adults, offering insights into how children convey their emotions through art when words fail them.

Discusses basic concepts of marriage and divorce. Offers children a creative way to sort out the stressful feelings of grief caused by change.

This book helps victims express in pictures what they are unable to say in words.

Focusing on emotional development, this art therapy book guides children in understanding and expressing anger appropriately. It emphasizes conflict resolution skills and offers strategies for coping with disappointment and frustration, making it a valuable resource for fostering emotional intelligence in young readers.

Provides basic information about drug and alcohol addictions and encourages healthy coping skills.

When a loved on dies, mourning is the necessary but difficult path to healing. Heegaard invites teens and adults to explore creative ways to understand the grief process, work through grief and emerge with greater strength and coping skills for living.

Life in middle school is defined by change. This book begins with changes in everyday life before focusing on grief from the death of a loved one. Creativity is encouraged to help them understand and express feelings needed to cope with grief. This book fills a need too often neglected for middle school students.

This guide offers suggestions for developing grief support groups and directions for using art to help children ages 6—12 individually or in groups cope with loss and change. Curricula are provided to use with the four workbooks in the series: When Someone Very Special Dies, When Something Terrible Happens, When Mom and Dad Separate, and When Someone Has a Very Serious Illness.