Grief and Bereavement Books
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families: 40th Anniversary Edition
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work forty years ago, are now part of our common understanding of... (more)
Love and Loss: The Roots of Grief and its Complications
Loving and grieving are two sides of the same coin: we cannot have one without risking the other. Only by understanding the nature and pattern of loving can we begin to understand the problems of... (more)
Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereavement: An Anthology
This anthology offers a unique collection of personal accounts of death, dying and bereavement. It examines representations of death, dying and bereavement in fiction, poetry, the media and the... (more)
Death and Dying: A Reader
This book draws together a range of both classic and newly commissioned pieces on the multidisciplinary study of death and dying. Organised into five parts, the book begins with a general exploration... (more)
Counselling for Grief and Bereavement
The authors take readers step-by-step through the skills needed to facilitate the process of grief, initiate healing and promote a sense of growth. Providing a firm theoretical base, they discuss the... (more)
Overcoming Loss: Activities and Stories to Help Transform Children's Grief and Loss
"Overcoming Loss" is a photocopiable resource that addresses childrens feeling of loss, which can arise from changing communities, schools, moving house, divorce or the death of a parent or... (more)
Dying, Death and Grief: Working with Adult Bereavement
This is a practical course book that links loss, grief and bereavement to counselling skills. In a clear, concise style it provides the theoretical background to attachment and loss and gives case... (more)
The Children Who Lived: Using Harry Potter and Other Fictional Characters to Help Grieving Children and Adolescents
"The Children Who Lived" is a unique approach toward grief and loss in children. Focusing on fictional child and adolescent characters experiencing grief, this book uses classic tales and the Harry... (more)
Grief in Young Children: A Handbook for Adults
It is a common misconception that preschool children are not capable of experiencing grief in the same way that older children do. This book challenges this assumption, demonstrating that although... (more)
Grief in Children: A Handbook for Adults: Second Edition
This fully updated second edition of explains childrens understanding of death at different ages and gives a detailed outline of exactly how the adults around them can best help them cope. Whether a... (more)
Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts
Palliative care is dedicated to ensuring that patients experience physical, spiritual and emotional ease as death approaches; bereavement care supports those who are left with the difficult task of... (more)
Why People Die by Suicide
In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a... (more)
Sorrow's Profiles: Death, Grief, and Crisis in the Family
'Dr Richard Alapack, sensitively and with deep understanding, orchestrates a survivor's journey through the complex country of sorrow. Alapack challenges and transcends the received scientific view... (more)
Working with Loss, Death and Bereavement: A Guide for Social Workers
All social workers encounter complex and diverse forms of loss throughout their practice. "Working with Loss, Death and Bereavement" helps trainee and practitioners navigate these difficult... (more)
Death of a Parent: Transition to a New Adult Identity
Reveals the remarkable change in our sense of self following the loss of a parent. When a parent dies, most adults are seized by an unexpected crisis that can trigger a profound transformation. Using... (more)
Three Faces of Mourning: Melancholia, Manic Defense and Moving on
Mourning and the importance of the capacity to bear some helplessness, while still finding pleasure in life, are central to this tightly organized volume. The multi-faceted processes involved in... (more)
Healing Children's Grief: Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer
Using qualitative analytic methods, this book identifies five developmentally derived age groups that clarify important differences in children's grief and mourning processes, in their understanding... (more)
Bereavement in Late Life: Coping, Adaptation, and Developmental Influences
Late life is a time when loss becomes more frequent. Grief experiences accumulate as many older people grapple with diminishing adaptive reserves, changes in cognitive and emotional functioning,... (more)
The Art of Grief: The Use of Expressive Arts in a Grief Support Group
Art and other expressive therapies are increasingly used in grief counselling, not only among children and adolescents, but throughout the developmental spectrum. Creative activities are commonly... (more)
Remember Me: Constructing Immortality - Beliefs on Immortality, Life, and Death
"Remember Me" brings together contributors from around the world with unique insight on the ways in which one's relationship with loved ones continues, endures, and perhaps even grows after death.... (more)
Cognitive Grief Therapy: Constructing a Rational Meaning to Life Following Loss
The goal of successful grief therapy is no longer just to sever ties. A healthy psyche copes with the stress of loss by maintaining high functioning in daily life activities while constructing a... (more)
Still Here with Me: Teenagers and Children on Losing a Parent
This book is a moving and thoughtful anthology of the experiences of thirty children and teenagers who have lost a parent. In their own words, children and young people of a variety of ages talk... (more)
Counselling for Death and Dying: Person-centred Dialogues
What happens to a person emotionally, psychologically and spiritually when confronted by the reality of the death of a loved one, the impending death of someone close to them, or their own death? As... (more)
On Suicide
Emile Durkheim's "On Suicide" (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that... (more)
Talking with Children and Young People About Death and Dying: A Resource Book
Talking with Children and Young People about Death and Dying is a popular resource designed to help adults talk to bereaved children and young people. Mary Turner explains the various aspects and... (more)
Loss, Trauma and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss
Whether it is a parent in the grip of Alzheimer's or a spouse missing in a disastrous event, we are all touched by ambiguous loss. Here Pauline Boss, the principal theorist of the concept of... (more)
Loss and Bereavement in Childbearing: Second Edition
Bereavement is a difficult issue for midwives to manage and families suffer when the care they receive is inadequate or inappropriate. Written by an experienced midwife and researcher, this work... (more)
It's OK to Be Sad - Activities to Help Children Aged 4-9 to Manage Loss, Grief or Bereavement
When a child faces a problem with health or disability we are quick to offer support or change our expectations. Sadness, distress, anxiety, whether transient or long-term, can have significant... (more)
Death... And How to Survive it: A Unique, Practical and Uplifting Guide to Coming to Terms with the Loss of Your Partner
'He passed away', 'She's gone', 'He died'...As anyone who has ever lost a loved one will know, the wording doesn't affect the meaning. Nothing can shield you or prepare you for the brutal reality and... (more)