While the usual transitional concerns will be present when schools reopen, it is anticipated that this fall's return to school will be particularly challenging. Teachers and administrators should operate on the assumption that everyone, (students, families and staff) will have experienced some degree of anxiety and stress, uncertainty, illness,…

Health professionals and educators should develop their abilities to educate about death and to comfort the bereaved. Due to lower death rates, the lack of philosophical religious views, and distorted perceptions of death contributed by television, death has become a mystery instead of a segment of the common experience. Particularly when a child…

Presents framework for in-service training of residence hall staff on how to deal with grief situation. Provides table of hypothetical stages of ordinary grief response which residence hall staff can use to assess and monitor a dealth/loss situation. Describes three major components of in-service training on dying and death. (Author/NB)