If a school community is confronted with a death, school chaplains can help those affected deal with their grief. How exactly? It can be very different.
The death of a loved one is a shock – and everyone processes it differently. But what if a school community is confronted with a bereavement? In such situations, school chaplains, but also other people who feel responsible at a school, can create suitable offers to cope with the grief.
Speak the truth, but don’t shock
News of the death of a teacher reached the school from the Freiburg region on a Monday morning at 7:40 a.m. There was not much time to consider how to deal with this loss. Lessons began five minutes later. Elisabeth Herzog * only had the few meters on the way to the classroom where the deceased teacher’s primary school students were waiting for lessons to start. She decided …
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