Grief and Bereavement Books
Critical moments - death and dying in intensive care:
This work explores how the withdrawal of active medical treatment is managed (more)
The near-death experience: a reader:
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)
Grief support group curriculum: Adolescence edition: Teens Together
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)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Middle Childhood Edition: Grades 3-6
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)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Early Childhood Edition: Grades K-2
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)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Pre-school Edition: Denny the Duck stories
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)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Facilitator's Handbook
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)
Living with Grief: Who We are, How We Grieve
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)
Healing Pain: Attachment, Loss and Grief
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)
Grief and Powerlessness: Helping People Regain Control of Their Lives
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)
Good Grief: Vol.1: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Under 11's
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)
Helping Children to Manage Loss: Positive Strategies for Renewal and Growth
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)
Loss and bereavement:
Aims to provide students with an understanding of theoretical perspectives and specific models of adaptation to loss. It is assumed that loss and change are normal processes which occur within a... (more)
An intimate loneliness: Supporting bereaved parents and siblings
This text explores how family members attempt to come to terms with the death of on offspring or brother or sister. It examines the importance of social relationships in helping parents and siblings... (more)
The social symbolism of grief and mourning:
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)
When Mum Died: Third Revised Edition
This booklet takes an honest and straightforward approach to death in the family. The pictures tell the story of the death of a parent in a simple and non-denominational way. It is designed to help... (more)
The Forgotten mourners: Guidelines for working with bereaved children
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)
Handbook of Bereavement: Theory, Research, and Intervention.
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: Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
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)
Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief
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)
Life, psychotherapy and death
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)
The nature of grief: The evolution and psychology of reactions to loss
A synthesis of material from evolutionary psychology, ethology and experimental psychology on the process of grief. 240 pages. (more)
When a Baby Dies: Psychotherapy for Pregnancy and Newborn Loss
This is the first in-depth exploration of psychotherapy for those who have experienced the loss of a baby during pregnancy or in the first few weeks of life. Irving B. Leon integrates recent work on... (more)
Living Through Loss: A Manual for Those Working with Issues of Terminal Illness and Bereavement
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)
The Courage to Grieve: Creative Living, Recovery and Growth Through Grief
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)
Death and the Family: The Importance of Mourning
First published in 1976, this is a standard text on bereavement. (more)
Storymaking in Bereavement: Dragons Fight in the Meadow
This book is about a specific way of helping people work through their losses, even though such losses may have occurred many years before. It is written for professionals in the health and social... (more)
Superhero Grief: The Transformative Power of Loss
Superhero Grief uses modern superhero narratives to teach the principles of grief theories and concepts and provide practical ideas for promoting healing.
Chapters offer clinical strategies,... (more)