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Loss & Grief links to Health & Wellbeing

Activities & Sessions

Possible Outcomes

Understanding life changes result in loss and grief 

Change - pages 22-23

Grief reactions - page 24

Grief stories (video) - page 24

1. Understanding health and wellbeing

3. Skills for personal and social development

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Reactions to loss and change 

Grief reactions - pages 25-26

‘Normal’ grief reactions (handout) - page 28

Extension activity - page 27
 

1. Understanding health and wellbeing

3. Skills for personal and social development

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Reaching out, reaching in 

How to help - pages 29-30

Helping yourself, helping a friend (handout) - pages 31-32

Helping a friend - page 30

1. Understanding health and wellbeing

3. Skills for personal and social development

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Helping friends 

Types of support - pages 33-34

Giving advice - page 34

Dear Dr Wright letters (handout) - page 36

Seeking help - page 35

Newspaper article (handout) - page 37

What to say - page 35

1. Understanding health and wellbeing

3. Skills for personal and social development

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Feelings and fears 

Different fears - page 38

Similarities & differences in our fears (worksheet) - page 40

Ranking fears - page 39

My fear (worksheet) - page 41

1. Understanding health and wellbeing

3. Skills for personal and social development

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Grief in a zoo community: funerals and grief rituals 

Exploring grief - page 42

Newspaper article (handout) - page 44

Funerals - page 43

Newspaper article (handout) - page 45

Research - page 43   

1. Understanding health and wellbeing

3. Skills for personal and social development

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Loss: a universal experience 

Change and loss - page 46

Feelings - page 47

Categories of loss (handout) - page 48

Holmes-Rahe survey of loss (worksheet) - page 49 

1. Understanding health and wellbeing

3. Skills for personal and social development

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Grief is normal 

Change and stress - page 50

‘Normal’ grief reactions (handout) - page 52

1. Understanding health and wellbeing

3. Skills for personal and social development

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Understanding loss in response to death 

Different deaths - pages 53-54

Determinants of grief - page 54

Determinants of grief (student handout) - page 55

Determinants of grief (teacher information) - page 56

1. Understanding health and wellbeing

3. Skills for personal and social development

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Supporting grieving friends and relatives
(2 lessons) 

Grief reactions - page 57

Masculine and feminine grieving patterns - pages 58-59

Unhelpful strategies (handout) - page 60

Guidelines for being a supportive person (handout) - page 61

1. Understanding health and wellbeing

3. Skills for personal and social development

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