Mental health clinicians, counselors, educators, child-care professionals, and others can perform an enormous service to bereaved infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, and to their families. This book offers a compassionate yet practical guide to the assessment and treatment of young children who have experienced the death of a parent or primary caregiver.

This practical handbook offers treatment guidelines for the behavioural and mental health problems of young children whose most intimate relationships are disrupted by the experience of violence. Practitioners from a variety of disciplines gain an understanding of the impact of violence and discover concrete intervention strategies to address the consequences of this experience for young children.