When teenagers experience times of grief in their lives, they go through a lot of mixed emotions that they don’t know how to deal with. Grief counseling for teenagers is no easy task. When seeing a psychotherapist in order to process their emotions.Teenagers are still going through a difficult stage in their lives without grieving. They are in the process of growing up along with trying to deal with their mixed emotions that are being disturbed by their hormones being released.

It isn’t easy to counsel a teenager going through a serious grieving process, however, they are much more pliable then adults are since they haven’t experienced enough in life yet. There are many ways in which to help them deal with their emotions. Some of them will be in asking questions and getting to the heart of the matter. But, to truly help in grief counseling for teenagers, they need to be involved in activities.

Some of these activities will be to help them create memories for their lost loved one. Other activities will help them to focus on something else so that they can have a smooth re-entry back into their lives. Even though their lives will never be normal again, they need to learn a new normal. In order for them to relearn how to live their lives they need to incorporate new activities that will be part of their new way of normal.

Activities to Help Teenagers Create Memories of Their Loved One

• Write Letters, Poems, and Songs

• Make Scrapbooks

• Color, Draw, and Paint Pictures of the Deceased

• Attend Family Gatherings

Activities to Help Teenagers Create a Brand New Life

• Sports

• Music

• Going Out With Friends

• Going to Church

• Participating in School Activities

• Finding a Job

• Learning to Drive

• Family Gatherings

Creating Memories

Teenagers don’t need to be forced to remember their loved one in any way, however, they do need to be encouraged not to constantly cry. If they want to remember their loved one they can do it in a positive way by journaling about the loved one. Writing in other ways helps also. If you have an artistic teenager on your hands then helping them to make a scrapbook filled with pictures, and things from their loved one’s past will help them hold onto positive memories and feelings. This is a great form of healing. Attending family gatherings to help them feel like they are bonding with the entire family will also help to foster positive emotions.

Re-Entering Life

Teenagers also need to get involved in other activities that will get their attention off of the deceased. Grief counseling Atlanta teenagers involves giving them new ideas so that they aren’t sitting around moping nonstop. Suggesting a night out bowling with friends is a great idea. Listening to music and/or going to concerts is a great way to help teenagers get their minds off of themselves and their pain.

Pain can be so overwhelming that only something really exciting will get them to start living life again. Going to church and prayer can foster spiritual healing as well. At a certain age, teenagers usually want to learn how to drive, so suggesting that they learn as early as possible can also help tremendously in dealing with their grief and re-entering life.  

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