Grief and Bereavement Books
Coping with the Death of a Child: An Integrated Clinical Approach to Working with Bereaved Families
Coping with the Death of a Child shows clinicians how to integrate various therapeutic modalities and clinical approaches to grief therapy into one comprehensive model linked to positive... (more)
Death and Chronic Illness in the Family: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives
What does it mean to be 'present and accounted for' when a family member is facing chronic illness or death? How does one define a self in relation to the ill or dying member and the family? Rooted... (more)
Perspectives on Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Disease, Social and Cultural Context
Individuals and families face challenges at the end of life that can vary significantly depending on social and cultural contexts, yet more than ever is now known about the needs that cut across the... (more)
Shattered by Grief: Picking up the pieces to become WHOLE again
This is a practical guide to help readers work through their grief via expressive therapies and activities, based on the techniques Claudia Coenen honed as a professional counselor after the... (more)
Continuing Bonds in Bereavement: New Directions for Research and Practice
The introduction of the continuing bonds model of grief near the end of the 20th century revolutionized the way researchers and practitioners understand bereavement. Continuing Bonds in Bereavement... (more)
Understanding Child and Adolescent Grief: Supporting Loss and Facilitating Growth
Carrie Arnold, MEd, has been an adjunct faculty in thanatology and psychology at King's University College, Western University since 2005. She is a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian... (more)
Helping Teens Work Through Grief
The second edition of Helping Teens Work Through Grief provides a more complete and updated manual for facilitators of teen grief groups. It includes additional background information about... (more)
The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide:
Research into suicide has expanded substantially in the last decade and has provided new insights in, for example, epidemiological, psychopathological and biological characteristics of suicidal... (more)
Making Death Thinkable
The author explores how different psychoanalytic theories have addressed the issue of death, its presence or absence in the unconscious, as well as the implications of the theories of the death... (more)
The Ethics of Palliative Care: European Perspectives
This innovative book, with contributions by clinicians, ethicists, philosphers and social scientists, provides the first ever picture of palliative care ethics in the European context. It will be of... (more)
Family Focused Grief Therapy
This book has been designed rather like a therapy manual, providing a step-by-step approach to assessment and intervention. Its rich illustration through many clinical examples brings the process of... (more)
A teacher's handbook of death:
This book provides teachers with methods to facilitate open discussions of death and to find ways of talking with children about what happens when someone dies. (more)
On the Death of a Child: Third Edition
The death of a child - whether during or following birth, through illness, through accident, or through suicide - is one of the greatest challenges families, carers, friends, and the health and... (more)
Living with Grief after Sudden Loss
This volume examines the subject of abrupt, unexpected death and its effects and implications for the survivors left behind. Topics covered include: after heart attack and stroke, survivors of... (more)
I'll Write Your Name on Every Beach: A Mother's Quest for Comfort, Courage and Clarity After Suicide Loss
Written by a mother who lost her 21 year old son to suicide, this book deals with the themes of suicide loss through the lens of the author's personal grief. Addressing the process of post-traumatic... (more)
Bereaved Parents and Their Continuing Bonds: Love After Death
For bereaved parents the development of a continuing bond with the child who has died is a key element in their grieving and in how they manage the future. Using her experience of working in a... (more)
Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs: Research on Experiences, Coping and Support
Individuals bereaved by the drug- or alcohol-related death of a family member represent a sizeable group worldwide. Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs is the long-awaited result of an important... (more)
Complicated Grief, Attachment and Art Therapy: Theory, Treatment and 14 Ready-to-Use Protocols
This wide-ranging book on art therapy and grief provides everything an art therapist needs to feel confident in creating an effective treatment plan. It features fourteen clear-cut protocols,... (more)
Children, Adolescents and Death: Questions and Answers
The topic of death and related issues (such as grief) often begin with questions. When the questions come from, or are about, children or adolescents, they bring an additional component... the fear... (more)
Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan: Research, Practice, and Personal Stories
Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan brings together researchers, clinicians, and bereaved siblings to explore sibling loss. Unique in both form and content, the book focuses on loss within five key age... (more)
Flirting with Death: Psychoanalysts Consider Mortality
This volume is a collection of essays by psychoanalysts covering the denial of death amongst psychotherapists and psychoanalysts and its effect on clinical practice, the effect of early childhood... (more)
Living Through Suicide Loss with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD): An Insider Guide for Individuals, Family, Friends and Professional Responders
Losing someone to suicide can open up a world of pain, confusion and grief, and for people with ASDs, the effect can be acute and extremely challenging. Reaching out to fellow Aspies, Lisa Morgan... (more)
If You Sit Very Still
In 1994, 21 years after her disappearance, Lucy Partington's remains were discovered in Fred and Rosemary West's basement at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester. In this powerful and lyrical book, Lucy's... (more)
Helping Children and Adolescents Think About Death, Dying and Bereavement
How can children begin to understand death and cope with bereavement? And how can we, as adults, support and engage with children as they encounter this complex subject? Exploring how children and... (more)
The Crafting of Grief: Constructing Aesthetic Responses to Loss
Many books on grief lay out a model to be followed, either for bereaved persons to live through or for professionals to practice, and usually follow some familiar prescriptions for what people should... (more)