The Guardian

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“Helping Children to Cope with the Pain of a Parent’s Death” – an interview with Dr Shelley Gilbert MBE.

By the age of nine, Shelley Gilbert had lost both parents. In the 1960s, people didn’t talk to children about death – even of a parent or sibling. Even now, they still sanitise bereavement with platitudes. And that’s just not good enough, she says.

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