Lori Hedderman, Preparing Your Children For Goodbye: A Guide

Lori Hedderman’s “Preparing Your Children For Goodbye: A Guidebook for Dying Parents” is an easy-to-read guide to end-of-life care that is specifically designed for use by parents of children and teenagers. It will help seriously-ill parents plan their end-of-life care; prepare their children for their death, and record life memories. Because it is tailored to the needs of parents who are dying, it is more specific for that purpose than general reviews of end-of-life issues. It uses a workbook format that includes questions to help consider issues relating to children, as well as more general questions that will help in planning and trigger memories about the past.

Lori A. Hedderman, M.Ed., N.C.C., L.P.C., is a certified school counselor who works with children and their families in the public school system.  Her work brings her into contact with many students who are losing a parent or loved one due to illness.  She conducts bereavement groups and counsels individuals who have experienced losses.  She also facilitates a support group for children whose parents have cancer or other serious illnesses.

She is trained in both crisis intervention and disaster mental health and responds to traumatic events in her role as a crisis team member for her school.  As a former American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Team Member, she was deployed to Mississippi during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, where she worked to console and to assist hundreds of victims who were grieving the loss of loved ones.

www.LoriHedderman.com