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A 6 page research paper that discusses the elements involved in planning a bereavement program to help Native Hawaiian children. The writer discusses that such a program should be age appropriate, consider the Native Hawaiian culture and include aspects of play therapy. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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designing social programs that endeavor to meet the needs of grieving children. In designing a bereavement program to aid Native Hawaiian children, social workers must consider the differences between death
rituals and beliefs in the Hawaiian culture and those of Western society. Also, program materials and interventions should be age-appropriate, as children have different approaches to grief and death depending
on their age and subsequent intellectual capacity. Furthermore, there is the consideration of what form intervention should take when intervention seems called for. In this regard, the planners of such
a program can be reasonably certain that there are sufficient similarities between the cultural orientation of Hawaiian children and children everywhere that play therapy can be adapted to include their
cultural approach to grief and death. Age determines a childs concept of death From the age of two to five years, a childs developing intellect allows them a certain
degree of independence. However, children this young are still unable to grasp the permanence of separation and, therefore, will often engage in behavior that is intended to make the lost
caregiver return (Couldrick, 1991). The child will cry, cling, and show anger at the separation through tantrums or destructive behavior. During the years between five and nine, a
child is becoming more socially aware and has a greater intellectual capacity, but still has problems regarding bereavement. This is the age of magical thinking and bereaved children at
this age may feel that, somehow, the death is their fault for having wished it in an angry moment (Couldrick, 1991). In pre-adolescence (ages 9-12 years), grieving can be complicated
by the fact that child is now cognitively capable of realizing the death is common to all living things. This realization suggests to children that they, too, will someday die,
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