Maria Trozzi: Dealing with Grief

9/9/2015 VALLEY BREEZE
Speaker Trozzi to offer parents help on children dealing with grief

WOONSOCKET - Author and grief expert Maria Trozzi will visit Woonsocket on Thursday, Sept. 24 for an interactive presentation on helping children deal with disappointment. The event, which is sponsored by Holt Funeral Home, will take place at 6:30 p.m. at Mount St. Charles Academy Chapel Hall. The event is open to the public. To inquire about reserved seating, visit www.holtfuneralhome.com .

Trozzi is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine; director of the nationally renowned Good Grief Program at Boston Medical Center, and a consultant to the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital. She is considered one of the foremost experts in the country on resilience as families, schools and communities face crises.

For the past three years, Trozzi has provided individual and group consultation and training workshops to Naval Special Warfare operators and their families' pre- and post- deployment. After Boston's Marathon bombing, she provided crisis debriefing to the health care first responders as well as nearby affected schools and community organizations.
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In the wake of the recent tragedy in Newtown, she continues to provide consultation, lectures and training to schools affected. She has provided crisis consultation after Columbine at Littleton, Colorado, Hurricane Katrina, at Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11 and in Grenada following Hurricane Ivan.

Her first book, Talking With Children About Loss, was published by Putnam-Penguin and continues to be an essential reference for parents and professionals.

During her visit to Woonsocket, the author will discuss "Helping Our Children Develop Resilience as They Face Life's Stressful Events," exploring the typical and not-so-typical speed bumps that children and adolescents encounter growing up in 2015. Topics will include:

• Dealing with life's disappointments: when our children hurt, what to say and what not to say

• Grampy no longer remembers my name: when illness strikes a family member.

• The world news events: navigating them for any aged child.

• When Rover is old and tired: talking about death with any aged child.