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Highlights
- Winner, 2018 Book Excellence Award "An invaluable resource for parents, teachers, coaches, ministers, and anyone who has a teenager they love and want to help.
- Author(s): Gary Roe
- 182 Pages
- Family + Relationships, Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Series Name: Good Grief
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About the Book
Teens are hurting. Young lives and hearts seem to be more at stake than ever. Written at the request of parents, teachers, coaches, and school counselors, this Book Excellence Award Winner presents sensitive and practical ways for each of us to make a massive difference - one teen at a time. Teens are the future. It's time to help them heal.Book Synopsis
Winner, 2018 Book Excellence Award
"An invaluable resource for parents, teachers, coaches, ministers, and anyone who has a teenager they love and want to help." - Glen Lord, President, Board of Directors, The Compassionate Friends
Teens are hurting.
While trying to make sense of an increasingly confusing and troubled world, teens get hit, again and again, with moves, separations, divorces, rejections, substance abuse, domestic violence, sexual abuse, illness, disability, and death. Add teen suicide and school shootings into the mix, and young lives and hearts seem to be more at stake than ever before.
Edgy, fun-loving, tech-driven, and seemingly indestructible, their souls are shaking. Gnawing questions surface from deep inside: "How did this happen? Why me? Is this my fault? What am I supposed to do? Who's next? Am I going to make it?"
Teen hearts are at risk. Each one is a priceless treasure. We can't afford to allow pain and loss to get the better of them.
What can we do?
Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a compassionate and trusted voice in grief recovery who has been bringing comfort, hope, encouragement, and healing to hurting, wounded hearts for many years. He wrote Teen Grief at the request of parents, teachers, coaches, and school counselors.
Born of personal experience and more than three decades of interacting with grieving teens, this informative, practical handbook is replete with guidance, insight, and ideas for helping teens navigate the turbulent waters of loss. Though Teen Grief primarily focuses on losses due to death, the principles discussed can be applied to any loss a teen might be experiencing.
In Teen Grief, you will learn...
- How large an issue teen grief is and how deep their pain goes.
- How the teen hearts tend to see and interpret loss, and how they attempt to manage it.
- How you can come alongside teens and help them deal with shock, denial, sadness, and anger.
- How you can support teens as they navigate anxiety, fear, guilt, and depression.
- How you can walk with teens in their loneliness, confusion, and skepticism about life and the future.
- How you can be a safe person who cultivates hope in teen hearts.
- How you (parent, grandparent, teacher, coach, school counselor, administrator, social worker, clergy, youth pastor, mentor, youth advocate, etc.) can use your specific role to have a positive and healing impact in teens' lives.
Teen Grief also includes hints for group discussion so that this resource can also be used by school staff, across entire school districts, and in churches. Together, we can make a massive difference - one teen at a time.
Parenting, education, teaching, coaching, quality relationships, personal health, diet, fitness, counseling, psychology, and therapy can all play a positive role in teen lives. If we can help them discover how to turn losses into gains and transform hardship into something productive, positive, and good, the ripple effects could be extraordinary. As they heal and grow, they can become the difference-makers this world so desperately needs.
Teens are the future. They need you. It's time to help them heal.
Discover what you can do. Scroll up and grab your copy of Teen Grief today.
Review Quotes
"Sensitive, compassionate, and practical, this book will be invaluable to many parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches, counselors, and anyone working with youth." - Paul Casale, Marriage & Family Therapist
"Gary Roe has done it again. Full of practical suggestions and exercises, this is an invaluable resource for parents, teachers, coaches, ministers, and anyone who has a teenager they love and want to help along the grief journey." -Glen Lord, President/CEO, The Grief Toolbox; President, Board of Directors, The Compassionate Friends
"Gary tackles a very difficult topic, presenting the complexity of the grieving process in a highly practical and authentic way through the eyes of teenagers. Another meaningful volume of hope and healing by a skilled and compassionate author." -Dr. Craig Borchardt, President / CEO, Hospice Brazos Valley
"Gary helps bring clarity and a pathway forward to the foggy reality that surrounds a teen in grief. An excellent resource for parents, teachers, counselors, and ministers." - Dr. Troy Allen, Pastor
"Teen Grief is a must read/own if you are a helper of adolescents." -Carrie Andree, Licensed Professional Counselor
"Only someone who has been through it himself could write something like this. This book is hope for your teen's heart." - Scott Marlow, Journey Church
"Heartfelt, wonderfully honest, compassionately written, Teen Grief will become a go-to resource for you personally, your ministry, or your practice. If you know anyone caring for a grieving teen, this book could be the best gift ever." -Tommy Myrick, Licensed Professional Counselor/Supervisor; Clinical Director, Mending Hearts Grief Center
