Guest speaker 1

Children's grief reactions are influenced by various factors, such as their developmental level, past experiences, relationship to the deceased, culture, religion, family, and social environment. It is difficult to determine what is a typical versus atypical reaction because these factors play a significant role in how children grieve. We also know that kids' grief reactions are influenced by a host of factors that can make it a little more complicated to determine how children typically grieve. And those factors include the child's developmental level, their previous life experiences, their relationship to the deceased person, their culture, their religion, their spiritual beliefs, their family, their social environment, and even the cause of death. And so to be able to say this is a typical versus atypical reaction is very tricky because we always have to account for many of these factors that have an important role in how children grieve.