This manual is written for adults who are looking to connect with grieving teens. The activities will give you structure to enable teens to reflect upon and talk about their individual concerns.

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Teens who have experienced the death of a parent, grandparent, friend or relative often find it difficult to grieve openly. When adults whom teens trust are aware of the cycle of grief, they can provide a safe atmosphere to allow teens to experience the turmoil of the intense and conflicting emotions in order to move toward healing. This book is a valuable guide to help adults connect with grieving teens.

The reader will find background information, along with many specific activities to help teens reflect upon and talk about their particular concerns. There are also ideas for creating a balance as the teen adjusts to the many changes brought by the loss of someone close. Issues of grief are introduced through drawing, molding clay, painting, movement, writing, listening to music, as well as talking in pairs and as a group. This wide variety of activities allows the adults to choose whatever activities are most appropriate for a particular group.

This resource provides busy teachers, counselors, psychologists, hospice personnel, and religious youth workers with the necessary information to work with teens in a group setting or support an individual teen touched by grief. In a less formal setting, this book could serve as a guide for a concerned neighbor or family memeber who already has a rapport with a grieving teen on the healing journey toward wholeness.

141 pages; 8 1/2 X 11;soft bound

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• Chapter 1: Teens and the Grieving Process
  Teen Years: Thunderstowms and Tightropes
  The Process of Grief
  The Grieving Teen

  Chapter 2: The Value of a Group in Dealing with Grief

  Why a Group?

  What Type of Group?

  Teen Grief Support: Goal and Objectives

  Using Theses Ideas with an Individual teen

  Chapter 3: Leaders of a Grief Group

  Characteristics

  Skills

  Why Have Co-leaders?

  Chapter 4: Parents' Roles

  How can Parents be Helpful to their Grieving Teens?

  How can Parents be Helpful Also?

  Provide a Parent Group Also

  Chapter 5: Preparation for the Group

  Publicizing the Group

  Interview and Registration

  Don't Forget the Snacks

  Chapter 6: Framework for the Sessions

  Group Design

  The First Two Meetings

  The Middle Meetings

  Closure: SSaying: Good-bye to the Group

  Chapter 7: Helping Teens Connect

  Activity 7.1 Getting to Know You

  Activity 7.2 My Coat of Arms

  Activity 7.3 Questions for Teens

  Activity 7.4 Mirroring

  Chapter 8: Learning About Grief

  Activity 8.1 Helps in Moving Through Your Grief

  Activity 8.2 Choosing to Work Through Your Grief

  Chapter 9: Creating a Balance

  Activity 9.1 Achieving a Balance

  Activity 9.2 Clearing a Space

  Activity 9.3 The Present

  Activity 9.4 The Hot-Air Balloon

  Activity 9.5 How My Life Has Changed

  Activity 9.6 Two Aspects of Grief

  Chapter 10: Grappling With and Moving Through the Pain

  Activity 10.1 No Where to Run

  Activity 10.2 Crazy Grief

  Activity 10.3 Dealing with Anger

  Activity 10.4 Delaing with Guilt

  Activity 10.5 Focusing: Being with feelings in a Caring Way

  Activity 10.6 Expressing Grief Through Visual Arts

  Activity 10.7 Write Through Grief

  Activity 10.8 Expressing Grief Through Music

  Activity 10.9 Memorializing a Loved One in a Fabric Wallhanging or Quilt

  Chapter 11: Remembering the Person Who Died

  Activity 11.1 Telling One's Story

  Activity 11.2 Sharing a Memento

  Activity 11.3 Commemorating a Special Life

  Activity 11.4 Holidays and Grief

  Chapter 12 Completing the Group Wxperience

  Activity 12.1 Support in My Life

  Activity 12.2 Closing Ceremony of Tribute

  Activity 12.3 Reflections about the Group

  Activity 12.4 Saying Good-Bye

  Chapter 13: Evaluation

  Evaluation #1

  Evaluation #2

  Evaluation #3

  Chapter 14 Providing Follow-Up

  Beyong the Group Meetings

  How to Detemine When Additional Help Is Needed

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