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A-Z Reflections on Loss and Grief

Linda Espe

In this beautiful small book Linda Espie provides a powerful resource for people who are grieving and indeed for anyone who wishes to reflect upon our human experience of loss. The content is practical wisdom distilled through Linda's long engagement in the field. It's a book we can use on our own terms; we don't have to follow an order the author thinks best for us. The format allows us to access the content in ways that are like the experience of grief itself. Unlike many grief resources that become prescriptive, this resource is open, flexible and participatory.

120 pages

$20.00

Caring for Your Grieving Child

Engaging Activities for Dealing with Loss and Transition

Martha Wakenshaw

Employing play-based techniques, a children's mental health specialist helps parents identify and express different feelings to help their grieving child cope. Includes tips on how to notice different types of play and respond accordingly, healthy ways to communicate with their child, and ways to recognize the signs of true healing in their child.

23x16cm

162 pages

$36.00

Child's View of Grief

A Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors

Alan Wolfelt

Parents, teachers, and other adults can learn through this concise and caring guide to how children and adolescents grieve after someone they love dies. Exploring the six reconciliation needs of mourning, this helpful resource recognizes that grieving children are especially deserving of an emotional environment of love and acceptance. Including a historical perspective on children and death, this handbook helps adults recognize the importance of empathy toward a grieving child, and provides guidelines for involving children in funeral services. These suggestions can help anyone who wants to help young people better cope with grief so that they can go on to become emotionally healthy adults themselves

14x22cm

52 pages

$14.00

Children Also Grieve

Talking about Death and Healing

Linda Goldman

An imaginative resource, fully illustrated with colour photographs, that offers support and reassurance to children coming to terms with the loss of a close friend or relative and to adults who are supporting them through their bereavement.
The combination of narrative and interactive memory book in the first part of the book is designed to be read and worked through by children. The story tells of the experiences of Henry, the dog of a family whose grandfather has died. During Henry’s progress through the different stages of bereavement, he learns strategies for coping with his grief. At various stages of the story, Goldman provides readers with the opportunity to share their own reactions to loss through words and pictures, using specific prompt questions that encourage the exploration of different facets of grief. The second part includes a list of useful vocabulary to help children express their feelings about bereavement, a bibliography of other useful resources for both children and adults, and a section that will help adults to understand and aid children throughout the grief process. This last section also explains the approach taken in the story, details typical responses to bereavement, and discusses useful ways in which adults can discuss and share grief with children.

79 pages

$36.95

Coping with Grief

McKissock & McKissock

Brief but comprehensive, addresses what is normal grief, physical and emotional reactions, coping with immediate needs, the funeral, children and grief, gender differences, etc. Aussie authors.

13x20cm

64 pages

$11.95

Gift of Tears

A Practical Approach to Loss and Bereavement Counselling 2ND ed.

Susan Lendrum

Candid and readable discussions on how to understand reactions of anger and guilt, attachment patterns, historical changes in attitudes to bereavement and understanding death as a particular form of loss. "Gift of Tears" is intended for anyone who finds they have to cope with the grief of others. It will prove invaluable to counselors, therapists, mental health professionals and all those helping the bereaved.

23x15cm

272 pages

$55.00

Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy

William Worden

Grieving over death is an innate, vital process that most people are able to experience and emerge from in a healthy manner.

23x16cm

248 pages

$61.00

Grief's Courageous Journey

A workbook.

Sandi Caplan & Gordon Lang

Provides a compassionate program of steps to take for coping with day-to-day life and accepting the changes in urselves and others. For those wishing to help others, also includes a comprehensive ten-session facilitator's guide for creating a grief support group in their own community.

23x15cm

147 pages

$24.95

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids

100 Practical Ideas (Healing Your Grieving Heart )

Alan Wolfelt

A little book that has proved to be a positive influence in the lives of many children who are experience grief. This book has things to do that are comforting and reassuring.

22x14cm

84 pages

$22.00

Healing your Grieving Heart for Teens

100 Practical Ideas
(Healing Your Grieving Heart)

Alan Wolfelt

What can we DO when someone we love dies. Grief can be all absorbing, especially in the teen years when emotions are such a predominant factor. Here are practical things to do, and they can help deal with grief.

23x16cm

84 pages

$24.00

How to Help Children Through a Parents Serious Illness

3rd ed

Kathleen McCue

Offering supportive, practical advice from a leading child-life specialist, this book includes information such as what to tell a child about the illness, how to recognize early-warning signs in a child's drawings, sleep patterns, schoolwork and eating habits, and when and where to get professional help.

20x14cm

240 pages

$28.00

Midlife Orphan

Facing life's challenges now that your parents are gone.

Jane Brooks

This thoughtful exploration of a neglected subject explains the emotional impact of losing parents in the midst of midlife - and why many underestimate it.

15x23cm

228 pages

$26.00

Stuck for Words

What to say to someone who is grieving.

Zagdanski

Adapts communication skills and modified counselling techniques to enable we ordinary people to speak confidently with a grieving friend, client, clolleague, relative - anybody who needs to talk about their feelings. Aussie author.

13x22cm

147 pages

$17.95

Talking with Children and Young People about Death and Dying

2nd ed

Mary Turner & Bob Thomas

Explains the various aspects and stages of bereavement and offers useful insights into the concerns of children experiencing grief or facing an imminent bereavement. Addresses children's common fears and worries, dreams and nightmares, and acknowledges the effect of trauma on the grief process. This second edition includes a new section for adults on understanding the distress of a bereaved child and also a list of useful contacts. It is a fully photocopiable workbook that enables adults to deal with these issues sensitively and explains, for example, how to choose appropriate words to support the child. It will empower and equip adults working with bereaved children to encourage them to communicate their pain and understand the often contradictory emotions aroused by the death of someone close to them.

30x21cm

160 pages

$47.95

Time to Grieve

Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One

Carol Staudacher

For those mourning the death of a loved one, this collection presents down-to-earth thoughts and meditations that truly comfort a grieving heart. Filled with compassion and wisdom, A Time To Grieve helps people work through the gamut of emotions they experience while grieving.

19x13cm

256 pages

$28.00


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