Bereavement During Childhood: Exploring Ways to Support Young People with Grief

Mind Vox

Grief is different for all of us, but for young people it can be even more complex whilst they’re still trying to learn about the world around them and how to process their emotions.

The Queen’s recent passing has opened up more conversation about grief and loss, and how to support teenagers and children in particular with this.

This episode explores:

-The affects of losing someone at a young age

-How Grief Can Present for Children

-How Grief Can Present for teenagers

-Complicated Grief

-How to support a young person about funerals

-Ways to support young people through the grieving process.

This episode includes some personal experiences from your host Claire, including her current experience of trying to support her stepsons who lost their mother unexpectedly last year.

*Trigger warning*

Contains conversation about grief, complicated grief, loss of a parent, childhood grief, suicide, anxiety, neurodivergence and depression.

Links

A more detailed, written version of this episode can be found on Claire’s website Single Parent Pessimist

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Cruse offer advice, support and grief counselling.

Hope Again is a youth website is a safe place where young people can learn from their peers how to cope with grief, and feel less alone.

Child Bereavement UK help families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies.

Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

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