Examples of Therapeutic Homework Assignments:
Examples of Therapeutic Homework Assignments:
Grief Loss Response Kit
That's the information, here's the help;
That's the information, here's the help;
When it's time to get some professional help.
When it's time to get some professional help.
READ IN ONE MONTH: How you doing on your Grief process?
READ IN ONE MONTH: How you doing on your Grief process?
Read in 6 months.
Read in 6 months.
Create a Grief/Loss History Time-Line to chart your losses.
Feelings Journal in which you address your specific feelings about the loss daily, consider including what you eat, exercise, sleep.
Write out a Personal Grief Plan for how you will process through it and when you might seek a professional counselor or attend groups, such as GriefShare. Include short term and long term goals.
Write about special memories.
Read your letters to a listener or small group.
The in-session exercise that I am known for doing with my clients is a meditative experience where we use our creative imagination to sit down with the person we've lost and have a conversation in which I suggest the following three sentence stems for them to say to each other: “I apologize for…”, “I forgive you for…”, “I want you to know…”.
Alternatively, you can write a letter to the person you lost, such as: “I apologize for…”, “I forgive you for…”, “I want you to know…”.