Scrapbooking as an Intervention for Grief Recovery With Children

ABSTRACT

This article describes scrapbooking in the context of bereavement counseling. For the purposes of this article, scrapbooking combines many different types of art-related therapy interventions into one concrete format to utilize in counseling with children who are working to overcome grief or trauma related to the loss of a parent. A case illustration is provided, along with a sample scrapbook page, timeline, and the materials needed.

KEYWORDS:

• Creativity
• counseling
• children
• grief
• loss
• trauma
• death of a parent
• photos
• scrapbooking