Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas

by Alan D. Wolfelt

Book Overview

With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879651238
• ISBN13: 9781879651234
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Companion Press (CO)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Very helpful!

My nephew had a friend die unexpectedly in an accident. He is 16 and having a very hard time coping with the loss. I bought this book for him. I read it first. It was easy to read, had a great flow to it and wasn’t long and drawn out. I think this book will be perfect for anyone coping with the loss of a loved one. It would also be helpful for those coping with the loss of a pet or someone who committed suicide. I am really glad I bought this book!!!

Death of a loved one

I bought this for my niece who is 14 after loosing her best friend and cousin to heart disease. I read it myself before giving it to her. AMAZING BOOK TRULY HELPFUL I am now going to order the adult version ...

Helpful to professional dealing with kids facing these issues

The book will be very helpful in working with students who are dealing with grief issues. On hands projects with students are proven to be very helpful tools to empower students and decrease their feelings of helplessness.

A Very Helpful Book for Teens

This book is wonderful. My son passed away at the age of 24 and my 15 year old daughter was finding it hard to find her way through this difficult grieving process. The book touched upon so many important and pertinent facts such as your grief is unique, just like your relationship to the person you lost is unique. Whether it's the loss of a sibling, parent, grandparent or other person in a teen's life, I think this book really addresses many of the issues that teens are concerned with when dealing with a loss in their lives.

Helping teens understand grief and mourning

Wolfelt has written this book in an easy-read format, making it not only easy to pick up and thumb through, but the bulletted pages make it easier for teens to read. As a School Social Work intern, the activities listed on the bottom of each page are excellent sources of ideas for use with students with whom I work.

Alan Wolfelt is great!

I stumbled on to Alan Wolfelt's books while browsing around at my local bookstore. His books on grieving really hit the spot and offer wonderful suggestions for teens, children and adults. There are books for caregivers and for those grieving as well.