Judith Parker, a trained grief and loss counsellor and best-selling ECA author, gives useful advice to parents, child care staff and others who are responsible for children, on how to talk to children about difficult events.

Helping children in times of need also provides information on how to identify grief reactions in children, further resources for adults and children and where to get professional help.

'I have just finished reading this, and I'd like to thank Judith Parker for her very useful, well-written book.

'I am a foster mother and was looking for a book to help me explain to my foster son the loss of his little foster sister - not by death but by this little girl moving on to her new long-term placement. I was lucky enough to have found such a wonderful book.'
Sandra, foster mother.