Grief and Bereavement Books
A Special Scar: The Experiences of People Bereaved by Suicide
Every 85 minutes someone in the UK takes their own life and the suicide rate is currently the highest since 2004. Society often reacts with unease, fear and even disapproval but what happens to... (more)
Autism and Loss
"Autism and Loss" is a complete resource that covers a variety of kinds of loss, including bereavement, loss of friends or staff, loss of home or possessions and loss of health. Rooted in the latest... (more)
Working with Grieving and Traumatized Children and Adolescents: Discovering What Matters Most Through Evidence-Based, Sensory Interventions
This book provides a structured, sequential, and evidence-based approach for treating children and adolescents who are experiencing trauma or grief. This approach can be used for all types of... (more)
Life and Loss: A Guide to Help Grieving Children
Many clinicians recognize that denying or ignoring grief issues in children leaves them feeling alone and that acknowledging loss is crucial part of a child's healthy development. Really dealing... (more)
The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby
The unexpected loss of a client can be a lonely and isolating experience for therapists. While family and friends can ritually mourn the deceased, the nature of the therapeutic relationship prohibits... (more)
Finding Your Own Way to Grieve: Expressive and Creative Activities for Coping with Grief for Kids and Teens on the Autism Spectrum
Children and teenagers with autism can struggle to cope with the loss of a loved one, and the complicated and painful emotions of bereavement. This book explains death in concrete terms that the... (more)
What Does Dead Mean?: A Book for Young Children to Help Explain Death and Dying
What Does Dead Mean? is a beautifully illustrated book that guides children gently through 17 of the 'big' questions they often ask about death and dying. Questions such as 'Is being dead like... (more)
Love and Loss in Life and in Treatment
Have you ever wondered what a therapist really thinks? Have you ever wondered if a therapist truly cares about her patients? Have you tried to imagine the unimaginable, the loss of the person most... (more)
Complicated Grief: Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals
How can complicated grief be defined? How does it differ from normal patterns of grief and grieving? Who among the bereaved is particularly at risk? Can clinical intervention reduce complications?... (more)
Living with Loss: A Guide for the Recently Widowed
A survival handbook for the widowed, showing how, over time, the healing process can be assisted, and how you can get the most from friends, organizations and resources to start living a full life... (more)
Complicated Grief: Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals
How can complicated grief be defined? How does it differ from normal patterns of grief and grieving? Who among the bereaved is particularly at risk? Can clinical intervention reduce complications?... (more)
Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine
'Another masterpiece. Szasz has produced a strong philosophical, psychiatric, forensic, sociological, and ethical analysis of suicide. I emphasize sociological, as it is a worthy heir to Durkheim’s... (more)
Communicating with Children When a Parent is at the End of Life
When a parent is nearing the end of life, children can feel like their world has been turned upside down, and they are often scared and confused about what is happening. Sensitive and clear... (more)
A Grief Unobserved: Helping Parents and Carers with Early Childhood Bereavement
There is a wonderful book by C S Lewis in which he describes the process of coming to terms with his bereavement - the "grief observed" which most adults will experience at some time in their lives…... (more)
Helping Bereaved Children: A Handbook for Practitioners: Third Edition
This acclaimed work describes a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss. Practitioners and students are given practical strategies for helping preschoolers... (more)
Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved
Techniques of Grief Therapy is an indispensable guidebook to the most inventive and inspirational interventions in grief and bereavement counseling and therapy. Individually, each technique... (more)
After the Suicide: Helping the Bereaved to Find a Path from Grief to Recovery
Those left behind in the wake of suicide are often plagued by unanswered questions and feelings of guilt. Helping them to understand why the suicide happened, how suicide survivors commonly react and... (more)
Talking About Death and Bereavement in School: How to Help Children Aged 4 to 11 to Feel Supported and Understood
Children experiencing bereavement are often confused, unprepared, and in need of help and support from those around them. It is important that school teachers and staff know how to respond to... (more)
Working With the Bereaved: Multiple Lenses on Loss and Mourning
Working With the Bereaved: Multiple Lenses on Loss and Mourning summarizes the major themes in bereavement research and clinical work and uses the authors’ own cutting-edge research to show... (more)
When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent: Third Edition
The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for... (more)
Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life: Fourth Edition
The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of... (more)
Grief and Its Challenges
This short introduction to loss and its impact on peoples lives is ideally suited to students and practitioners across many professions. With sensitivity and simplicity, Neil Thompson explores how... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy for Families in Times of Illness and Death: Second Edition
Living with serious illness has profound effects not only on patients themselves but also on their families. This fully updated edition by a recognized expert focuses on the individual in context,... (more)
Helping Grieving People - When Tears Are Not Enough: A Handbook for Care Providers: Second Edition
A training manual for care providers who provide support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. The author addresses grief as it affects a variety of relationships and... (more)
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice
An authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. Its chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most... (more)
A Comprehensive Guide to Suicidal Behaviours: Working with Individuals at Risk and Their Families
Over a million people commit suicide every year, making it the tenth leading cause of death worldwide. For this reason and many others besides, an understanding of the act is vital, especially for... (more)
Working with Bereaved Children and Young People
This book offers a fresh insight into working practices with children and young people who are experiencing the death of a family member, friend, school peer or in their social network. Bridging the... (more)
Grief After Suicide: Understanding the Consequences and Caring for the Survivors
There are over 30,000 suicide deaths each year in the United States alone, and the numbers in other countries suggest that suicide as a cause of death will be around for the foreseeable future. A... (more)
Myths About Suicide
Around the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that may strike our own loved ones - and much of what we think we know is wrong.... (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)