The death of a child is a loss like no other. Parents experience the symptoms of grief more intensely and for far longer than with any other loss. For the dead child's siblings, their family is never the same again. How do families survive this worst loss? What helps people heal? What have families and clinicians learned that will help others through their loss and enable them to rebuild their lives. Barbara Rosof draws on families' own stories as well as groundbreaking research on grieving to answer these and other questions in this compassionate book. The Worst Loss will help families who have experienced the death of a child to know what they are facing, understand what they are feeling, and appreciate their own needs and timetables.