Too Young Bereavement

Although, these young lives do not often understand how to cope with the loss of an important figure it can be important to understand and identify that many misperceptions can prevent from giving children and adolescents from receiving the appropriate support and treatment that most adults do receive when they mourn the loss of a loved one. As a result, the belief that children are too young to bereavement can deny them the right to appropriately grief their loss.

It is believed that children because they are so young do not understand the concept of death, therefore, cannot experience grief. But, in the contrary, children are aware of their surrounding and can respond to the changes encounter in their daily life. Another misperception