UMUC How to Talk to Kids about Death Discussion

For this discussion, choose one of the following 3 scenarios (or if you’d like, you could create a different scenario) and explain what questions or topics you would address, as well as the strategies and techniques you might use to enhance the effectiveness of your communication. Describe the thoughts and/or emotions that having “the Conversation” elicits in you.

Use and cite the below resources to support the ideas in your post.

Choose one of the following three scenarios (or create one of your own). Again, this can be real OR fictitious (imaginary):

1. Talking with a parent or grandparent about what their preferences are at the end of life.

2. Talking with a close friend or relative about your own preferences at the end of life.

3. Talking with a young relative (you can choose the age) who has questions about death.

Please be sure to use APA citations in your text and to include your reference list. When you refer to and/or discuss any resources, you need to include a citation for that source, such as: (Braincraft, 2015).

1 page is all that is needed.

Child Development Institute. (2015). How to talk with kids about death. Retrieved from https://childdevelopmentinfo.com/how-to-be-a-parent/communication/talk-to-kids-death/

Hayslip, B., Jr. (2016). Communication with the dying. Retrieved from Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. http://www.deathreference.com/Ce-Da/Communication-with-the-Dying.html