Teens are often asked to take on adult responsibilities like carpooling, childcare, emotional support, part-time jobs, and role model for younger children. Tip: Try to remember that younger and middle teens are not yet adults. Take a hard look at the appropriateness of the roles they're ...
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. ...
This guide is designed to help adults connect with grieving teens. It offers background information along with many specific activities to help teens reflect upon and talk about particular concerns. There are also ideas for creating a balance as the teen adjusts to the many changes brought by ...
Their support system plays a particularly important role in coping with their experience of loss. When adults who are responsible for managing and maintaining the household and promoting the welfare of the family are overwhelmed by their grief, unable to function adequately in their usual roles, ...
(see Taylor et al.,2005; see also Sponsel,2012). Unfortunately, the RCOPE does not help in this. Overall, the items in these two sections of the RCOPE offer several ideas for possible subjects of study in relation to ecological grief, but many modifications and additions should be made ...
many don't understand why they feel the way they do.Children and teens need helpwith the grieving process, and may lack the proper support. Adults responsible for them may also be struggling to cope with their grief on top of their own. Here are some ideas to help a grieving child under...
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 ...
Perhaps we become adults when we realize that someday our parents are going to die and we will have to take care of ourselves (or find someone else to do it <— not recommended). So self-sufficiency is a must. Building your own family and support system is a must. But what if ...
The Six Thinking Hatsmodelwas created by psychologist Edward de Bono in 1986, who noted that personality type was a key driver of how people approached problem-solving. For example, optimists view situations differently from pessimists. Analytical individuals may generate ideas that a more emotional ...
Fear not, we havea post with detailed ideas on how to do justthatand apodcast on using your support system effectively. Speak up This can be tough, because talking about your loss can be tough . . . and awkward . . . and weird to work into conversation. For those very reasons many...