Grief and Bereavement Books
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)
Ambiguous loss: Learning to live with unresolved grief
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)
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)
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)
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)
Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families
This book tackles head on the often tabooed subject of death. It distils sophisticated clinical work into simple language, and describes simple techniques for talking to children about dying. The... (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)
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician's Guide to Foundations and Applications
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy bridges the fields of attachment studies, thanatology, and interpersonal neuroscience, uniting theory, research, and practice to enrich our understanding of how we... (more)
Seasons of Grief: Creative Interventions to Support Bereaved People
The quiet letting go of Autumn, the reflective stillness of Winter, the bright rebirth of Spring, and the flourishing warmth of Summer trace the natural path of grief as it grows and changes to fit... (more)
Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
The stunning new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Many Different Kinds of Love
A Guardian book of 2023
A BBC book of 2023
In our lives, terrible things may happen.... (more)
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and... (more)
Third-Wave Cognitive Therapy for the Treatment of Loss and Grief: A Clinician's Guide
This book proposes and explores a novel conceptualisation of the grieving process grounded in evolutionary psychology that integrates cognitive behavioural approaches such as compassion focused... (more)
Compassion-Based Approaches in Loss and Grief
Compassion-Based Approaches in Loss and Grief introduces clinicians to a wide array of strategies and frameworks for engaging clients throughout the loss experience, particularly when those... (more)
Missing Mummy: A Book About Bereavement
Written and illustrated by the talented and award-winning author-illustrator Rebecca Cobb, this extraordinary book deals with the loss of a parent from a child's point of view. Perfectly pitched text... (more)
Personal Grief Rituals: Creating Unique Expressions of Loss and Meaningful Acts of Mourning in Clinical or Private Settings
Personal Grief Rituals presents a new model for how bereaved individuals can create unique expressions of mourning that are tailored to their psychological needs and grounded in memories and emotions... (more)
Coaching and Supervising Through Bereavement: A Practical Guide to Working with Grief and Loss
This book presents a pragmatic guide for coaches and supervisors working with grief and bereavement, providing both useful case studies and practical techniques to aid professionals in embracing the... (more)
You Are Not Alone
Welcome to the club. I'm still here now, all these years later. You don't leave once you've joined; it's a life membership. Grief eases and changes and returns but it never disappears. But you will... (more)