Care For You Workbook

Creating a journal with helpful prompts for teenagers to process through grief and connect with others.

Final Layout

About

Dealing with close loss at a young age, specifically teen years. Feeling lost and like you cannot connect to your peers. Handling death in teen years is difficult to manage for several reasons as you cannot often relate about it with your peers. Talking with adults about the subject often feels belittling and as though your feelings are being dismissed. There is little space for teenagers to work through this, as a large majority of grief work is spent towards children or adults. This book is meant to help teenagers work through some difficult times and reconnect with their loved ones or peers in similar situations. It is intended for a youthful audience, without being childish.

Branding

My branding for this project was kept muted and youthful in order to cater to both its subject content and audience. The cover Soap Bubbles font is inviting and the name is also not to giving away as to what the content is. It keeps the users book private of the content it truly carries as the artwork and title does not completely give it away. The continuity of Calder type kept continuity as I needed many fonts throughout this book yet clearly shows their differences and importance. The muted colors each have a youthful entity, while still keeping in tune with the tone and content of the book. As it is focused it should not be too bright, however, it is working with youth and reconnecting them with their memories.

Research

I interviewed multiple people of varying ages for this project in order to get an in depth answer as to how they healed as a teenager struggling with grief and also what has helped them as they have gotten older. Each persons story is different, including their reactions and processing actions. Teenagers are working to discover who they are, so when that is compounded with grief the greatest commonality was completely shutting down and feeling lost rather than growing. Another commonality I found key was communication with others and journaling was most important in healing, aside from time. In order to include those in my project I included various ways to journal. Ones that included communication with friends around you, or things you might want to share with your loved one who has passed.

Persona Empathy Map

Customer Journey Map

Low Fidelity Layout

Final Spreads