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30 June 2020

Teenagers and Grief

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🔹This week our theme is Empathy and Kindness. Empathy is something many children have without even knowing it, but teaching what it is and how it helps those around us can help children to recognise how others are feeling. This is an important skill for all children, but can be particularly helpful following a bereavement.

🔹Our #MakeItMonday is a creative and fun way to explore feelings with children. It opens discussion about how and when people might feel different emotions and how we might be able to spot them and support them.

🔹The bracelets can be worn at any time. You could make one each and then use them as a way of communicating how you are feeling by showing the corresponding bead. This example will enable children to do the same with their beads and share how they are feeling with you. Not only does this help with expression of emotion, but by connecting a feeling to a physical bead children can be easily reminded of what that emotion feels like and build empathy for the person experiencing it.

🔹It is important to include a wide variety of emotions, including happy and sad ones to show that we will all experience a number of different emotions at different times and in different ways, and that this is normal and healthy. ... See MoreSee Less

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🔹This week we have been concentrating on teenagers and their grief experience. A book that we often recommend is ‘The Grieving Teen’ by Helen Fitzgerald. It is a book for either the parent to read alone or better still to share with their teenager. Helen is an American grief counsellor with lots of experience of dealing with teenagers and the book is written in an accessible style that is easy to dip in and out of. It is split into chapters such as ‘Understanding your Feelings’ or ‘What Does the Future Hold for Me?’ - questions that teenagers might want to know the answer to but wouldn’t necessarily ask themselves. Each chapter has a ‘What You Can Do’ section in it that provides the reader practical ideas and tips for a specific concern. This book is not only good for families but would also be a helpful resource in school or colleges.

🔹We also wanted to recommend a novel for young people and this week we have selected ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness (based on an idea by Siobhan Dowd). Now, this book comes with a health warning as it is a powerfully emotional book about a young boy, Conor, whose mother is dying of cancer. He ‘befriends’ a monster, a force of nature, and the monster tells him three stories which take him (and us) on a journey to discover truth. An online review by a 13-year-old states that, “The book helps you express how you really feel, not just how others want you to feel. This book is essential and needs to be read by all.” There is also a 2016 film adaptation directed by J. A. Bayona which is also worth watching with Liam Neeson as the monster character and Lewis MacDougall in the leading role. ... See MoreSee Less

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Supporting bereaved teenagers, particularly if you are grieving yourself, can be very challenging. Helen, from our clinical team, has shared some information and advice in our latest blog post that you may find helpful.
Visit 👉 www.seesaw.org.uk/2020/06/30/955/ ... See MoreSee Less

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