Giving Hope

Conversations with Children About Illness, Death, and Loss

By: Elena Lister M.D., Michael Schwartzman Ph.D., Lindsey Tate

Narrated by: Laura Jennings

The best and only resource you will ever need for helping any child understand and cope with illness, death, and loss

Just as death is inevitable, talking about death is an inevitable part of parenting. Dr. Elena Lister and Dr. Michael Schwartzman offer us the way to have conversations with children that are as much about life as they are about death—conversations that anyone who parents, teaches, or counsels children can have.

Giving Hope is a must-have resource that expands our understanding of how to prepare for, initiate, and facilitate these personal and profound conversations. The approach is honest, practical, and compassionate and will benefit a grieving child both now and in the future. Giving Hope provides us with the tools to make our children’s experiences positive and life-affirming.


* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains an extensive list of resources from the book.

Incredible resource for grief counselors

Giving Hope provides powerful real life best practices for pediatric grief counselors and parents in the midst of supporting their children.