Table 1.

Digital Storytelling At-a-Glance

Session Number	Digital Storytelling Session (2 hour sessions)
Individual Family Meetings (Prior to the First Group Session)	In this session, the social worker provides the storytellers (i.e., intervention participants) with basic psychoeducation about grief and loss and Digital Storytelling. The social worker facilitates rapport building and asks the storytellers to spend some time outlining their stories and discussing, together as a family, what they would like to focus their digital story on. The social worker ends the meeting with a closing activity.
Session 1 (Introducing the Narrative): Introduction to Digital Storytelling and Writing the Story Script	This session begins with an opening activity (continued rapport building). The social worker then guides the families through a process of writing their scripts. Each family shares their script, inviting members of other families and the social worker to respond. Prior to the end of the session, families are asked to digitally record their finalized scripts. The social worker ends the session with a closing activity.
Session 2 (Exploring thoughts and feelings about death and grief): Storyboarding Session	The session begins with an opening activity, followed by the storyboarding session. The social worker distributes storyboard templates to all the families and teaches the storytellers how to complete them, allowing sufficient time for families to finalize their storyboards before the end of the session. The social worker instructs families to collect images and memorable items to include in their digital stories and to bring them to the next group session. The social worker ends the session with a closing activity.
Session 3 (Continued exploration): Video-editing Session	This session begins with a brief opening activity. The social worker spends the remaining time working with families on building their digital stories in the video-editing software. The session ends with a closing activity.
Session 4 (Re-claiming control): Sharing the Digital Story	This session begins with a brief opening activity. The social worker invites families to share their digital stories. The social worker allows time for interaction and reflection. The social worker encourages families to share their digital story with someone outside of their group and to discuss that experience as a family. The session ends with a closing activity.
Session 5: De-briefing session	This session begins with a brief opening activity. The social worker guides the families in a discussion about their experiences with digital storytelling. The social worker asks families to discuss how participating in digital storytelling has affected their family. The social worker asks the family to discuss how they will use their digital story moving forward. The social worker ends the session with a closing ceremony, during which they provide each family with a DVD of their story.