Grief and Bereavement Books
Grief, Loss and and Bereavement: Evidence and Practice for Health and Social Care Practitioners
Bereavement is a challenging area for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved. This invaluable text draws together... (more)
Speaking of Dying: A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care
Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying... (more)
Bereavement Narratives: Continuing Bonds in the 21st Century
Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual with both healthy and pathological forms. However, this empirically-grounded study argues that this is not always the best... (more)
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)
Getting Back to Life When Grief Won't Heal
Helps you move on from the process of mourning. This title shows you how to accept your loss, begin your recovery, and live a happier, more meaningful life. Learn to go on with your life after your... (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)
The Struggle Against Mourning
How does the analyst help the patient to be in touch with pain and mourning? Is the relinquishment of defenses always desirable? And what is the analyst's role in the mourning process - should the... (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)
Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide
Silent Grief is a book for and about "suicide survivors" - those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one. Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself - several... (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)
Grief Unseen: Healing Pregnancy Loss Through the Arts
Approximately one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, yet this remains a taboo topic and effective aftercare is rarely available for women who have suffered pregnancy loss. "Grief Unseen"... (more)