Grief and Bereavement Books
Supporting People Through Loss and Grief: An Introduction for Counsellors and Other Caring Practitioners
What are the different theories of grief? What skills do you need for effective counselling? How can you support people experiencing loss and grief? This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to... (more)
End of Life Care: A Guide for Therapists, Artists and Arts Therapists
The many unfounded myths and fears that surround working with people at the end of their lives are dispelled in this thoughtful book, and the authors provide both practical and emotional support for... (more)
Working with Loss and Grief: A Theoretical and Practical Approach: Second Edition
This updated second edition provides a model for practitioners working with those who are grieving a significant life loss. Making clear connections between theory and practice, the 'Range of... (more)
Grief and the Expressive Arts: Practices for Creating Meaning
The use of the arts in psychotherapy is a burgeoning area of interest, particularly in the field of bereavement, where it is a staple intervention in hospice programs, children's grief camps,... (more)
Bereavement Care for Families
Grief is a family affair. When a loved one dies, the distress reverberates throughout the immediate and extended family. Family therapy has long attended to issues of loss and grief, yet not as the... (more)
Losing a Parent to Suicide: Using Lived Experiences to Inform Bereavement Counseling
The suicide of a parent has life-long consequences; few more traumatic scenarios exist, and counselors often struggle for ways to help clients deal with its effects. Few understand the pain and... (more)
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)
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)
Give Sorrow Words: Working with a Dying Child: Third Edition
Though there has been much written about dying and bereavement in recent years, the particular stress of terminal illness in childhood - as it affects both the families and the professionals - is... (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)