Grief and Bereavement Books
Someone Very Important Has Just Died: Immediate Help for People Caring for Children of All Ages at the Time of a Close Bereavement
A resource for professionals in all areas of work relating to bereavement. It is designed to be given to adults with children in their care at the time of a death. (more)
Katie's Diary: Unlocking the Mystery of a Suicide
It is not easy to understand why people kill themselves. This book examines this subject. (more)
Good Grief: Vol.2: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Over Elevens and Adults
Catering for a variety of religious and cultural backgrounds with a practical and creative approach, this guide offers a source of information as to dealing with loss and grief within the structure... (more)
Voices of Bereavement: Casebook for Grief Counsellors
Built on the premise that individuals and family members can be helped through their bereavement experience and that there are specific skills and interventions that guide a counsellor in this work,... (more)
Gift of Tears
Second edition (more)
Grappling with Grief: A Guide for the Bereaved
This book looks at different ways of going through a loss of any kind. The author draws examples from her experience as a psychotherapist and counsellor and offers the readers the chance to learn... (more)
What Forever Means After a Death of a Child: Transformed by the Death of a Child
Writing from the perspective of bereaved parent and psychotherapist, the author describes the trauma and multiple secondary losses experienced by bereaved parents. This book builds on empirical and... (more)
Counselling in Terminal Care and Bereavement
The book covers both caring for the terminally ill and the "actual" bereavement, thus providing guidance on the whole process of counselling patients and their families. Case studies include examples... (more)
Understanding Children's Experiences of Parental Bereavement
As well as offering valuable insight into the impact of death on children, the author provides practical guidelines for how teachers and parents can better support children through the first stages... (more)
Bibliotherapy for Bereaved Children
Bibliotherapy with Bereaved Children provides a comprehensive list of children's fiction to help with the process of grief and healing, and is an essential resource for all those living and working... (more)
Finding a Way Through when Someone Close has Died
The supportive and interactive style of this book will make it a valuable source of help and encouragement for bereaved children and teenagers. It will also be useful to adults seeking to understand... (more)
The near-death experience: a reader:
This work is a comprehensive collection of near-death experience (NDE) cases and interpretations. Contributions to the collection are made by writers from a variety of disciplines, including... (more)
Grief support group curriculum: Adolescence edition: Teens Together
The Grief Support Group Curriculum provides a basis for assisting children and teenagers as they learn about mourning through facing death of a close friend. The aim of this curriculum is to... (more)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Middle Childhood Edition: Grades 3-6
Intended for use with late elementary-school-aged and middle-school-aged children who have experienced the death of someone special, this work is for professionals who work in schools, hospitals,... (more)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Early Childhood Edition: Grades K-2
Intended for use with elementary-school-aged children who have experienced the death of someone special, this work is for professionals who work in schools, hospitals, hospices, mental health... (more)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Pre-school Edition: Denny the Duck stories
The grief support group curriculum provides a basis for assisting children and teenagers as they learn about mourning through facing the death of a close friend. The aim of this curriculum is to... (more)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Facilitator's Handbook
The Grief Support Group Curriculum provides a basis for assisting children and teenagers as they learn about mourning through facing death of a close friend. The aim of this curriculum is to... (more)
Living with Grief: Who We are, How We Grieve
Many factors influence how individuals experience and adapt to loss. Among these are the nature of the loss, the relationship and attachment to the loss, the circumstances surrounding the loss,... (more)
Healing Pain: Attachment, Loss and Grief
Complicated losses give people psychological wounds. Healing Pain investigates why the process of grief is such a dramatic turning point for those who undergo it, and why they can never remain as... (more)
Grief and Powerlessness: Helping People Regain Control of Their Lives
In this examination of why and how people grieve, this book addresses the experience of grief in many situations. It examines the effects on clients of bereavement and loss in many forms - death and... (more)
Ambiguous loss: Learning to live with unresolved grief
New in paperback. Frozen sadness - what we have when we cannot really know what we have lost. This is what Pauline Boss illuminates, explores, and helps to ease. The loss could be a loved one still... (more)
Good Grief: Vol.1: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Under 11's
Catering for a variety of religious and cultural backgrounds with a practical and creative approach, this guide offers a source of information as to dealing with loss and grief within the structure... (more)
Helping Children to Manage Loss: Positive Strategies for Renewal and Growth
This text explores the territory of loss in childhood using the words of children who have found themselves bereft of hope. The book touches on subjects such as: helping a child prepare for loss and... (more)
The Social Symbolism of Grief and Mourning
By tying together folklore and traditional beliefs with actual funeral practices, both contemporary and modern, the author has created a work that examines the anthropological, psychological and... (more)
The Forgotten Mourners: Guidelines for Working with Bereaved Children
A new and revised edition which raises awareness of the sensitive issues involved for bereaved children, highlighting their needs and their emotional and behavioural responses to bereavement. 114... (more)