This guidebook is written for professionals working with troubled children. It is also suitable for use by parents who need an effective tool for communicating with their children under such difficult circumstances. An accompanying storybook is also available. This is a guidebook to help children who: are missing someone too much or suffer from separation anxiety are obsessed with their absent parent yearn for a parent who: has died; seems unreachable, although is right there is loving one minute and indifferent, cold or abusive the next They yearn because they have been taken into care, fostered or adopted.