Writing from the perspective of bereaved parent and psychotherapist, the author describes the trauma and multiple secondary losses experienced by bereaved parents. This book builds on empirical and... (more)
The book covers both caring for the terminally ill and the "actual" bereavement, thus providing guidance on the whole process of counselling patients and their families. Case studies include examples... (more)
As well as offering valuable insight into the impact of death on children, the author provides practical guidelines for how teachers and parents can better support children through the first stages... (more)
Bibliotherapy with Bereaved Children provides a comprehensive list of children's fiction to help with the process of grief and healing, and is an essential resource for all those living and working... (more)
The supportive and interactive style of this book will make it a valuable source of help and encouragement for bereaved children and teenagers. It will also be useful to adults seeking to understand... (more)
This work is a comprehensive collection of near-death experience (NDE) cases and interpretations. Contributions to the collection are made by writers from a variety of disciplines, including... (more)
The Grief Support Group Curriculum provides a basis for assisting children and teenagers as they learn about mourning through facing death of a close friend. The aim of this curriculum is to... (more)
Intended for use with late elementary-school-aged and middle-school-aged children who have experienced the death of someone special, this work is for professionals who work in schools, hospitals,... (more)
Intended for use with elementary-school-aged children who have experienced the death of someone special, this work is for professionals who work in schools, hospitals, hospices, mental health... (more)
The grief support group curriculum provides a basis for assisting children and teenagers as they learn about mourning through facing the death of a close friend. The aim of this curriculum is to... (more)
The Grief Support Group Curriculum provides a basis for assisting children and teenagers as they learn about mourning through facing death of a close friend. The aim of this curriculum is to... (more)
Many factors influence how individuals experience and adapt to loss. Among these are the nature of the loss, the relationship and attachment to the loss, the circumstances surrounding the loss,... (more)
Complicated losses give people psychological wounds. Healing Pain investigates why the process of grief is such a dramatic turning point for those who undergo it, and why they can never remain as... (more)
In this examination of why and how people grieve, this book addresses the experience of grief in many situations. It examines the effects on clients of bereavement and loss in many forms - death and... (more)
New in paperback. Frozen sadness - what we have when we cannot really know what we have lost. This is what Pauline Boss illuminates, explores, and helps to ease. The loss could be a loved one still... (more)
Catering for a variety of religious and cultural backgrounds with a practical and creative approach, this guide offers a source of information as to dealing with loss and grief within the structure... (more)
This text explores the territory of loss in childhood using the words of children who have found themselves bereft of hope. The book touches on subjects such as: helping a child prepare for loss and... (more)
By tying together folklore and traditional beliefs with actual funeral practices, both contemporary and modern, the author has created a work that examines the anthropological, psychological and... (more)
A new and revised edition which raises awareness of the sensitive issues involved for bereaved children, highlighting their needs and their emotional and behavioural responses to bereavement. 114... (more)
A comprehensive review of scientific knowledge on the consequences of losing a loved person through death. The volume brings into focus a wide variety of theoretical approaches that have been... (more)
Traumatic grief is an emerging disorder. This is the first book for clinicians that presents and discusses diagnostic criteria and evidence-based treatment for this disorder. 112 pages. (more)
Many modern theories hold that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, freeing the survivor to develop new relationships. This work, however, argues that proper... (more)
Exploring the subject of death from the point of view of a psychotherapist, this text aims to look at death and what it means, as a method of helping others to come to terms with it. It discusses... (more)
A synthesis of material from evolutionary psychology, ethology and experimental psychology on the process of grief. 240 pages. (more)
This practical manual trains people to counsel and aid others who are suffering loss and bereavement. It confronts the fear of mortality, promoting self-awareness and self-nurturing in carers, in... (more)
Although this book emphasizes the response to bereavement, it aims to help with all kinds of loss and grief, exploring intense and uncomfortable emotions such as sorrow, guilt, loneliness,... (more)