Our students sometimes experience losses during their college years that most of us can never have imagined enduring in that season of our lives. In today’s episode of Teaching in Higher Ed, how to care for grieving students.

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How to care for grieving students

Respect confidentiality… to a point
Point them toward their resources
Avoid assumptions… if you can
Be human
Don’t lower course requirements; let them earn their degree, not receive it through pity
Recognize the pain of the neutral zone (coined by Bridges in his book: Transitions: Making sense of life's changes)
Avoid personalizing dishonesty

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Process your own grief

One wonderful book for processing one's grief and going through transitions is William Bridges' The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments.
We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed. - William Bridges
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