Description
Support Group Curriculum for Grieving Adolescents draws from best-practice strategies and provides mental health professionals working in a range of settings with a 10-week grief group curriculum to support bereaved adolescents. The sessions focus on various topics, including sharing stories, discussing common grief reactions, developing coping strategies, dealing with ambivalent feelings, adjusting to life after death, and handling grief on special days. Each session is structured and provides step-by-step activity instructions, a list of supplies, and follow-up suggestions for families and teachers. Alternative activities are also suggested to allow flexibility depending upon group needs. Warm-up and closing activities are also provided. In addition to the sessions, foundational chapters directed at grief group facilitators are included and provide key information such as understanding grief, diversity considerations, types of death and group settings, guidance for family and teachers, self-care for professionals, and factors to consider when identifying group members and engaging in pre-screening. The book is designed to be used by professionals with varying knowledge of grief and the grieving process. This contemporary and informative grief group curriculum is intended to be user-friendly and will be useful for a wide-range of professionals and graduate students in various mental health fields.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Understanding Grief and the Mourning ProcessChapter 2: Affirming Grief Experiences Across Diverse GroupsChapter 3: Types of Death and Group SettingsChapter 4: Guidance for Families and TeachersChapter 5: Self-Care for Mental Health ProfessionalsChapter 6: Identifying and Pre-Screening Group MembersChapter 7: Nuts-and-Bolts for a Successful GroupSession 1: Finding Our Vibe: Building Trust and ConnectionSession 2: How We Got Here: Sharing Our StoriesSession 3: Dealing with the Aftershocks: Talking about Grief Reactions Session 4: We Can Do This: Developing Coping StrategiesSession 5: My Way of Grieving: Understanding Our Unique Grief ProcessSession 6: Heartfelt Histories: Sharing Memories of Our Loved OneSession 7: Your Tug-of-War Within: Addressing Ambivalent FeelingsSession 8: Embracing Your New Normal: Adjusting to Life After the DeathSession 9: Getting Through Tough Times: Handling Grief on Special DaysSession 10: Embracing the Journey: Group Termination and Saying Good-ByeAppendix A: Tenets of the Strengths-based Framework of Grief and its Application to YouthAppendix B: Screening QuestionsAppendix C: Tips for Families and Teachers Appendix D: Journey through Grief ScaleAppendix E: Grief Tide Scale Appendix F: Warm-up and Closing ActivitiesAppendix G: Session HandoutsActivities Index
