Group work with children in crisis aims to

• A. Facilitate healing and provide validation of feelings.
• B. Increase competitive testing.
• C. Replace crisis response with counseling.
• D. Focus only on academic performance.

Answer: (A)

In a crisis, group work with children centers on helping them process what happened, feel heard, and begin healing through sharing in a safe, validating setting. When kids hear others express similar fears and reactions, their own feelings feel real and more manageable, reducing isolation and building coping skills.

The other options miss the emotional needs of the moment: increasing competitive testing doesn’t address distress, substituting counseling for the immediate crisis response ignores urgent safety and support needs, and focusing only on academics overlooks the essential emotional recovery that underpins long-term learning.