Digital Storytelling for Bereaved Individuals in a Virtual Setting

Omega (Westport). 2024 Feb;88(3):951-960. doi: 10.1177/00302228211051524. Epub 2021 Dec 6.

Abstract

An emerging body literature exists highlighting the use of Digital Storytelling as an educational, and/or therapeutic intervention. Authors of this manuscript have studied Digital Storytelling as a narrative bereavement intervention designed to help individuals make meaning of adverse life events, like the death of a family member. Until recently, Digital Storytelling is typically delivered in person. The purpose of this article is to describe the steps to implementing Digital Storytelling as a bereavement intervention in a completely virtual setting, using Zoom technology. Best practices and lessons learned for the virtual delivery of Digital Storytelling are provided.

Keywords: bereavement; caregivers; internet-based intervention; narrative; storytelling.

MeSH terms

  • Bereavement*
  • Communication
  • Family
  • Grief
  • Humans
  • Narration