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Teens who have experienced the death of parent, grandparent, friend or relative often find it difficult to grieve openly. When adults who 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 towards healing.
This book is a valuable guide, helping 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. 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. In addition, new activities incorporate the various dimensions of the grieving process with audio-visual materials and the Internet.
The second edition of Helping Teens Work Through Grief provides a more complete and updated manual for facilitators of teen grief groups. It includes additional background information about developmental aspects of teens, the process of grief, aspects of trauma and its effects on teens, the value of a group, determining the group-appropriateness of particular teens, and parental involvement. The many details involved with beginning a group - publicity, interviews, registration, structure, closure, evaluation, and follow-up - are listed.
This resource provides teachers, counselors, psychologists, social workers, hospice personnel and religious youth workers with the necessary information to work with teens in a group setting or support a grieving individual. In a less formal setting, Helping Teens Work Through Grief could also serve as a guide for a concerned neighbor or family member who is in a position to help a grieving teen on the healing journey towards wholeness.
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Helping Teens Work Through Grief Second Edition Helping Teens Work Through Grief Second Edition Mary Kelly Perschy NEW YORK AND HOVE Published in 2004 by Brunner-Routledge 29 West 35th Street NewYork, NY 10001 www.brunner-routledge.com Published in Great Britain by Brunner-Routledge 27 Church Road Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA www.brunner-routledge.co.uk Copyright © 2004 by Taylor&Francis Books, Inc. Brunner-Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Cover image: images.com/CORBIS Cover design: Elise Weinger Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perschy, Mary Kelly, 1942– Helping teens work through grief/by Mary Kelly Perschy.—2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-94696-4 (pbk.) 1. Grief in adolescence. 2. Bereavement in adolescence. 3. Teenagers—Counseling of. 4. Grief therapy. I. Title. BF724.3.G73P47 2004 155.9′37′0835–dc22 2003019898 ISBN 0-203-48790-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-57749-3 (Adobe eReader Format) To the many teens who have shared the turmoil of their grief and to those teens who are willing to enter into that struggle, that their pain may be healed and may they experience a renewed life To those adults who care enough to support teens in their journey through grief Contents List of Activity Sheets ix List of Figures x Acknowledgments xi Introduction