Professional School Counselors Address Grief and Loss: A Creative Group Counseling Intervention

Children and adolescents experience many types of loss, and as a result, grief is often displayed within the school setting. Group counseling is an effective intervention for children and adolescents who experience grief and loss. Professional school counselors are highly trained and qualified to offer effective interventions within a group counseling format. Creative interventions are engaging and therapeutic, thus, serving as ideal interventions in which professional school counselors can offer group counseling sessions. Utilizing Marge Heegaard’s book, When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope With Grief, the authors will offer a brief overview of 11 group counseling sessions coupled with creative interventions for children and adolescents to address grief and loss in a school setting. Implications for student learning targets will be offered.