This paper is primarily concerned with gaining a more thorough understanding of the grieving process, development, and outcomes for adolescents who suffer the death a parent. This topic is pursued despite various challenges, including literature being mostly focused on adult or child experiences, rather than adolescents.. However, through the unification of psychoanalytic theory, particularly the study of mourning by George Hagman, and psychological frameworks of the more typical adolescent experience, a bridge between these two life stages can be created. The main implications and effects of loss, such as disruption in the process of individuation and later-life failures to cope, are emphasized. This paper concludes by offering alternative approaches to supporting adolescents, mainly grounding their healing in supportive peer groups, recognition of loss without placing the focus exclusively on grief, and re-centering their own lives.