Investigating the effective strategies of adolescents in dealing with grief caused by parental

The aim of this study was to investigate the effective strategies of adolescents in dealing with grief caused by parental divorce.  This research is based on a qualitative approach and has described the subject in depth using a phenomenological design.  Participants in this study were 12 adolescent students aged 14-18 in the academic year 1399-1400 belonging to the provinces of Tehran, Isfahan, and Lorestan who were selected by the snowball method, and sampling was done based on the principle of saturation.  Data were collected during semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the Colaizzi method.  Finally, after analyzing the data, 5 main categories such as the central phenomenon of grief, causal factors in adjustment, grief consequences, adaptive mediators, and effective strategies in adjustment, and 14 sub-categories were concluded, which are discussed in detail in the research text.