Grief & Loss Worksheets
Grief and loss worksheets built around the frameworks clinicians actually use: Worden's four tasks of mourning, the dual process model, and honest stages-of-grief psychoeducation. The collection includes expressive tools like the goodbye letter and sentence completion, myth-correcting handouts, and guidance for supporting grieving children. Every sheet is free to read and print for sessions or between-session work.
12 worksheets available. Free to browse, read, and print.
Common Myths About Grief: What the Evidence Actually Shows
Challenging widespread misconceptions to support a more compassionate understanding of loss
Grief Adaptation Tasks: Quick Reference
A concise guide to the four tasks of mourning
Grief Reflections: Open-Ended Prompts
Expressive writing prompts for processing loss
Navigating the Grief Process
Understanding the phases of grief and how to support yourself through each one
Supporting a Grieving Child
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Caregivers Navigating Loss with Children
The AFFIRM Framework for Grief Support
A Mnemonic for Processing Loss with Compassion
The Four Tasks of Grief Adaptation
An active framework for navigating loss
The Nonlinear Path of Grief
Understanding grief as a dynamic, unpredictable process
Tracking My Grief Journey
A personal reflection tool for understanding how grief moves through your life
Understanding Grief: Essential Facts
What current research tells us about the grief process and how to navigate it
Understanding the Grief Process
Common responses to loss and how they unfold
Writing a Therapeutic Farewell Letter
A guided framework for processing loss, closure, and transition through expressive writing
Free Grief & Loss treatment manuals
Complete open-access protocols from sources like SAMHSA, the VA, WHO, and RAND that pair with the worksheets above. Each one links to the official source and states its license, free and legal to use.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) Therapist Guide
A complete therapist guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy for depression, adapted for veterans as part of the VA's national evidence-based psychotherapy rollout. It walks through the full 16-session protocol across the four IPT problem areas (grief, role disputes, role transitions, interpersonal deficits) and devotes nearly half its pages to six extended case vignettes with session dialogue.
Group IPT for Depression
A complete 8-session group protocol for treating depression with interpersonal therapy, written for the WHO by Lena Verdeli, Kathleen Clougherty, and Myrna Weissman of Columbia University. It walks facilitators through pre-group interviews, the group phase, and termination, with scripts, case examples, and handouts.