Lisa Athan serves as a grief consultant and grief counselor for teenagers, adults, families, groups and for communities following a loss of any type. Lisa has an office in Northern NJ, provides sessions via Skype and by phone, and also makes home visits or community calls as a consultant. ...
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 ...
Organizing this early bereavement group by relationship to the deceased, scores of a subset of recently bereaved twins exceeded those of bereaved children and spouses, and were slightly higher than those of bereaved parents. However, the majority of twins' scores were significantly higher than those...
Adult emotional instability: Following death, teens may witness the adults in charge really struggle. Grieving parents and caregivers may present as extremely emotional, unable to care for the child’s needs, or unable to fill parental roles (perhaps their own or perhaps those of a deceased paren...
The book includes many helpful ideas for living with grief. The author states, "Grief, by its very nature, is labyrinthine and enigmatic; its implications are emotional, physical, social and interpersonal, economic, spiritual, and existential." The techniques for living with grief are therefore as...
When mourning is bypassed, the deceased individual remains as a "ghost" in the family, interfering with children's development as well as adults' developmental tasks, such as marriage, remarriage, or parenting, and places family members at risk for a host of physical and psychosocial problems. ...
While a grief podcast can be a valuable resource to help you cope with grief, it's not a replacement for professional therapy. If you've recently experienced a loss, are finding it difficult to cope, or grief affects your mental health, it may benefit you to discuss your feelings with a...
That said, it's common for people to have ideas about what theythinkit's like. From our first exposures to loss, we naturally begin to build a conceptualization of what we believe grief must be like. And, depending on what we've observed and learned, our assumptions can run the gamut ...
Learn more about BridgingLife's grief support services for children and adults by calling 443-952-4236. Grief Support Groups Healing After a Substance Loss Support Group Open to those who have experienced the death of a loved one related to ...
So I have updated it for today. It’s hard to believe it’s been 21 years, Just think of all the children and young adults today who have no memory of this atrocity because they weren’t even born yet, or were far too young to even know about it, except from history classes at ...