Teen grief

Resources for Grieving as a Teen

• YouthGrief.ca – Developed — from content to art to design — by grieving youth, for grieving youth.  It shares wisdom, experiences and advice from more than 30 young people who’ve been there, and know what it’s like to grieve when someone you care about has died.
• Helping a Teenager Deal with Grief from What’s Your Grief
• The Grieving Teen – An informational article about supporting a grieving teenager
• Hope Again: Young People Living After Loss – A collection of stories from young people living after loss
• SLAPD.com – “Surviving Life After Parent Dies” – A social media platform intended exclusively for teens who have experienced the death of a parent
• Teenage Grief Sucks – read stories written by grieving teens and share your own.
• Teens talk about grief – A video series where teens talk about various topics including memories, after the death, alone time and how their friends responded.
• A decade: my grief journey in reflection – A daughter writes about her experience with her dad’s death just as she was graduating from high school in 2003, featured on Hello Grief.
• Help 2 Make Sense – an online tool which aims to help young people who have experienced the death of a loved one come to terms with their loss.
• Normalize Grief: Share Your Grief – grief templates for social media

Books and Journals

• The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age by Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
• Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman – A book about women who have lost their mothers at a young age. It combines personal stories with research to produce a relatable and insightful piece of work for any motherless daughter or person with a motherless daughter in their life that they wish to support.
• Deconstruction/Reconstruction: A Grief Journal for Teens by the Dougy Center
• Out of the Blue: Making Memories Last When Someone has Died by Winston’s Wish
• Fire In My Heart, Ice In My Veins: A Journal for Teenagers by Enid Traisman
• Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt
• Chill and Spill: A Place to Put It Down And Work It Out by Jeanean Jacobs
• Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love by Earl A. Grollman