Grief and Bereavement Books
Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections
This is a book about death, loss, grief and mourning, but with an unusual twist. It is different in that it explores specific kinds of deaths encountered within families and households, rather than... (more)
Responding to Loss and Bereavement in Schools: A Training Resource to Assess, Evaluate and Improve the School Response
This practical resource provides everything you need to enable your school to provide the best possible support for pupils and staff who have suffered a loss or bereavement. The book includes a... (more)
New Models of Bereavement Theory and Treatment: New Mourning
New Models of Bereavement Theory and Treatment: New Mourning is a major contribution to our culture's changing view of bereavement and mourning, identifying flaws in old models and offering a new,... (more)
Counseling Adolescents Through Loss, Grief, and Trauma
Loss, grief, and trauma come into the lives of adolescents in many forms and with more frequency than the adults in their lives may realize. Assessing the depth and nature of their emotions can be... (more)
Bereavement Groups and the Role of Social Support: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice
All too frequently, clinical practice consists of repeating year-after-year the methods learned in graduate training, occasionally seasoned by a technique learned in a continuing education workshop.... (more)
When Professionals Weep: Emotional and Countertransference Responses in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Second Edition
When Professionals Weep speaks to the humbling and often transformational moments that clinicians experience in their careers as caregivers and healers - moments when it is often hard to separate the... (more)
Daughters, Dads, and the Path Through Grief: Tales from Italian America
Losing a father can be absolutely wrenching. This insightful guide tells the story of the strong connections between daughters and dads throughout life, and the consequent grief and loss a daughter... (more)
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician's Guide to Foundations and Applications
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy bridges the fields of attachment studies and thanatology, uniting theory, research, and practice to enrich our understanding of how and why people grieve and how we... (more)
Understanding Loss: A Guide for Caring for Those Facing Adversity
Loss and consequent grief permeates nearly every life changing event, from death to health concerns to dislocation to relationship breakdown to betrayal to natural disaster to faith issues. Yet,... (more)
Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity
Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity is a landmark contribution that provides fresh insights into the experience and process of mourning. It includes fourteen original essays by... (more)
Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment and Intervention
Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment and Intervention continues where the acclaimed Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved left off, offering a whole new set... (more)
Parenting After the Death of a Child: A Practitioner's Guide
The death of a child has a tremendous and overwhelming impact on parents and siblings, completely altering the psychological landscape of the family. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, parents face... (more)
The Shame of Death, Grief, and Trauma
Shame is a common and pervasive feature of the human response to death and other losses, yet this often goes unrecognized due to a reluctance to acknowledge and confront it. This book intends to... (more)
Understanding Grief: An Introduction
Understanding Grief is a comprehensive and accessible 'one stop' introduction to all the major models of grief. In addition to the individual perspective, bereavement is discussed in relation to... (more)
Grief and Trauma in Children: An Evidence-Based Treatment Manual
Grief and Trauma in Children provides easy-to-implement, ready-to-use therapy materials to help busy practitioners use grief and trauma interventions in real-world settings. All interventions in the... (more)
Death and Bereavement Across Cultures: Second Edition
All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Western science has had a major impact on how people die,... (more)
Seeds of Hope Bereavement and Loss Activity Book: Helping Children and Young People Cope With Change Through Nature
'Life is full of changes; they happen all the time. Some changes are harder to cope with than others.' Seeds of Hope Bereavement and Loss Activity Book uses nature to help children understand death,... (more)
A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. Painfully honest in its dissection of his thoughts and... (more)
Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations
In Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations, experts explore the varied, often complex, and always tragic circumstances under... (more)
Stress Response Syndromes: PTSD, Grief, Adjustment, and Dissociative Disorders: Fifth Edition
The first edition of this now classic work provided the basis for adding post traumatic stress disorders to diagnoses of mental conditions. Each subsequent edition added new understanding, summaries... (more)
Moving Beyond Loss: Real Answers to Real Questions from Real People - Featuring the Proven Actions of the Grief Recovery Method
In October 2010 the authors became exclusive providers of grief- and grief-recovery-related content on a memorial website called Tributes.com, a site that receives approximately three million unique... (more)
Understanding Loss and Grief: A Guide Through Life Changing Events
Loss and grief are universal experiences and much has been written about both. Understanding Loss and Grief: A Guide Through Life Changing Events is a comprehensive self-help book about the various... (more)
Interrupting Cycles of Early Loss, Trauma and Abuse: Therapeutic Challenges
This volume offers rich and detailed illustrations of the complex emotional needs of the children and parents in vulnerable families. The chapters also highlight the psychological toll that working... (more)
The Price of Love: The Selected Works of Colin Murray Parkes
In the course of a long career Colin Murray Parkes, one of the most important and influential psychiatrists working in the field of bereavement and loss, has produced a body of work which can be... (more)
The Great Below: A Journey into Loss
Maddy's husband, the poet Michael Donaghy, died suddenly at the age of fifty, leaving her to bring up their young son alone. After the shock of his unexpected death, the funeral and public mourning... (more)
Working with Bereavement: A Practical Guide
A practical guide for those who work with the bereaved in a variety of settings, from nurses and social workers to volunteers. Covering ethics, cultural issues and support networks, an essential text... (more)
Treating Traumatic Bereavement: A Practitioner's Guide
This book presents an integrated treatment approach for those struggling to adapt after the sudden, traumatic death of a loved one. The authors weave together evidence-based clinical strategies... (more)
Cinema as Therapy: Grief and Transformational Film
Loss is an inescapable reality of life, and individuals need to develop a capacity to grieve in order to mature and live life to the full. Yet most western movie audiences live in cultures that do... (more)
Dealing with Dying, Death, and Grief During Adolescence
For some, life's introduction to death and grief comes early, and when it does it can take many forms. Not only does Dealing with Dying, Death, and Grief during Adolescence tackle them all, it does... (more)
How People with Autism Grieve, and How to Help: An Insider Handbook
The book is an honest, first-hand account of how people with autism deal with the loss of someone in their life. Unlike the non-autistic response, people with autism, when faced with overwhelming or... (more)