Grief and Bereavement Books
Someone Very Important Has Just Died: Immediate Help for People Caring for Children of All Ages at the Time of a Close Bereavement
A resource for professionals in all areas of work relating to bereavement. It is designed to be given to adults with children in their care at the time of a death. (more)
Katie's Diary: Unlocking the Mystery of a Suicide
It is not easy to understand why people kill themselves. This book examines this subject. (more)
Good Grief: Vol.2: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Over Elevens and Adults
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)
Voices of Bereavement: Casebook for Grief Counsellors
Built on the premise that individuals and family members can be helped through their bereavement experience and that there are specific skills and interventions that guide a counsellor in this work,... (more)
Gift of Tears
Second edition (more)
Loss and Learning Disability
The emotional life of people with learning disabilities is a subject that has only begun to be thought about during the last decade. This important new book by Noelle Blackman addresses the central... (more)
Grappling with Grief: A Guide for the Bereaved
This book looks at different ways of going through a loss of any kind. The author draws examples from her experience as a psychotherapist and counsellor and offers the readers the chance to learn... (more)
Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy
Developed in conjunction with the Hospice Foundation of America's 10th annual tele-conference, Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy examines our varied responses to public tragedy,... (more)
Re-Membering Lives: Conversations With the Dying and the Bereaved
Grief is frequently thought of as an ordeal we must simply survive. This book offers a fresh approach to the negotiation of death and grief. It is founded in principles of constructive conversation... (more)
What Forever Means After a Death of a Child: Transformed by the Death of a Child
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)
Nonfinite Loss & Grief: A Psychoeducational Approach
This practical and compassionate book challenges the idea that the grieving process is the same regardless of the nature of the loss. The authors distinguish 'nonfinite loss', including disability,... (more)
Living your Dying
The healing experience of dying. (more)
The Daily Telegraph guide to funerals and bereavement:
A funeral is a major purchase and the funeral directing trade is not licensed or regulated, so there is concern about monopolistic practices. (more)
Counselling in Terminal Care and Bereavement
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)
Understanding Children's Experiences of Parental Bereavement
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 for Bereaved Children
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)
Finding a Way Through when Someone Close has Died
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)
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)