Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) [Paperback]

Alan D. Wolfelt PhD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2001 | Series: Healing Your Grieving Heart series

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 tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing. These ideas and activities are aimed at reducing the confusion, anxiety, and huge personal void so that the living can begin their lives again. Included in the books for teens and kids are age-appropriate activities that teach younger people that their thoughts are not only normal but necessary.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 7 Up-A book that is written in clear, user-friendly prose. Each page presents a different idea designed to help teens recognize mourning as a natural process connected with loss, reassuring them that they should not be afraid of deep, sometimes uncontrollable emotions, and showing them how to release grief in healthy, positive ways. Several suggestions appear under each heading; many of them encourage readers to express their feelings in a journal. The book has a comfortable tone to it, without taking away from the very definite need to deal with grief. It seems to work with, rather than talk at teens as they tackle the problem/solution process. A good first step toward admitting the need for and getting help.

Kim Harris, Newman Riga Library, Churchville, NY

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From Booklist

Gr. 6-12. When teenagers lose loved ones, they often feel confusion as well as heartache. Wolfelt, whose decades of experience in grief work with teens informs his ideas, offers 100 ways to facilitate grieving and come to terms with loss. Although the instinctual desire may be to push intense feelings away, Wolfelt encourages teens to attend the funeral, visit the gravesite, and even to seek out smells that call the loved one to mind. He also counsels teens to avoid "techno-escape," using television and the Web to keep from feeling the pain. For periodic perusal more than a straight read-through, this book offers practical and constructive tasks that will bring teens into contact with their feelings. A unique approach to an important subject, this will be a good companion to Earl Grollman's Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers (1993). John Green
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Product Details

• Age Range: 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Companion Press; 1 edition (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879651238
• ISBN-13: 978-1879651234
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #75 in Books > Self-Help > Death & Grief > Grief & Bereavement

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Helping teens understand grief and mourning December 4, 2003

By cmborg3

Format:Paperback

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Helpful Book for Teens February 22, 2006

By K. Mcfeely

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Alan Wolfelt is great! August 25, 2001

By Jami Garrison VINE™ VOICE

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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.