Studies the effect of training on nine parents' knowledge of childhood grief and on parent-child communication about death. Parents who received training had greater knowledge about childhood grief than did parents in the control group. No significant differences were found for parent-child communication about death. (RJC)

What happened in the small farm community of Elk Point, South Dakota, on January 8, 1986, was unimaginable--a father shot his family and then walked to work and shot himself. Upon learning of the murder/suicide, the Elk Point School District faced the difficult questions of what teachers should say to students, how the district should deal with…