Grief Literacy: Creating a world that recognises, validates and supports grieving people

Who should view this webinar recording?

Anyone who works in a professional care role or supports people through all forms of loss and grief. Our content is applicable to a wide variety of professions including counsellors, social workers, teachers, emergency response teams, medical, corrections, mental health, hospice, volunteers, caregivers and more.

Overview

Grief literacy is the capacity to access, process, and use knowledge regarding the experience of loss. Young people experience grief much more commonly than most people realise and grief can be associated with negative psychological, physical, educational, and employment outcomes. Despite this, grief in the age group 14-24 years is under-researched.

Research shows that grieving young people don’t often receive the support or have access to services they would like. In the research young people reported that they want to know more about grief, including how to talk about it, how to get support, and how to help when someone is grieving, and that talking about grief with people who understand it was important.

Based on this, we recently completed a study to find out what young people need to have their grief recognised, validated, and supported. This is the first application of the concept of grief literacy to young people.

Key learning points

On completion of this session, attendees will:

• Understand the concept of grief literacy.
• Recognise how grief literacy apples to death losses and non-death losses.
• Identify similarities and differences between grief literacy and death literacy.
• Appreciate current literature on grief and adolescence.
• Hear about recent findings from a project about grief literacy for young people aged 14-24 years).
• Be able to apply resources, including relevant videos and infographics, to support their work with young people and families.

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