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After Charlotte's Mom Died

Cornelia Maude Spelman

Not only does Charlotte have to deal with feeling sad when her mother dies, she is also being teased at school because she doesn't have a mum. Because six-year-old Charlotte feels sad, mad, and scared, she and her dad visit a therapist who helps them acknowledge and express their feelings.

24x20cm

32 pages

$30.00

After the Death of a Child

Living with Loss Through the Years

Ann Finkbeiner

For a parent, losing a child is the most devastating event that can occur. Most books on the subject focus on grieving and recovery, but as most parents agree, there is no recovery from such a loss. This book examines the continued love parents feel for their child and the many poignant and ingenious ways they devise to preserve the bond.

24x16cm

273 pages

$44.00

Burden of Sympathy

How Families Cope with Mental Illness

David Allen Karp

In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one.
Working from sixty extensive interviews, the author reveals striking similarities in the experiences of caregivers: the feelings of shame, fear, guilt and powerlessness in the face of a socially stigmatized illness; the frustration of navigating the complex network of bureaucracies that govern the mental health system; and most of all, the difficulty negotiating an "appropriate" level of involvement with the mentally ill loved one while maintaining enough distance for personal health.
Throughout, Karp sensitively explores the overarching question of how people strike equilibrium between reason and emotion, between head and heart, when caring for a catastrophically ill person. The book concludes with a critical look at what it means to be a moral and caring person at the turn of the century, when powerful cultural messages spell out two contradictory imperatives - pursue personal fulfillment at any cost and - care for the family at any cost.

21x14cm

340 pages

$36.00

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

Children and Grief

When a Parent Dies

William Worden

Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a richly textured portrait of the mourning process in children. Presents major findings from the harvard Child bereavement Study and places them in the context of previous research, shedding new light on both the wide range of normal variation in children's experience of grief and the factors that put bereaved children at risk. Also compares paretnally bereaved children with those who have suffered loss of a sibling to death, or of a parent through divorce, exploring similarities and differences in these experiences of loss.

22x15cm

225 pages

$49.95

Counseling Individuals with Life-Threatening Illness

Threatening Illness

Ken Doka

A comprehensive guide for counselors and health care professionals, this book builds on a model which views serious illness as a series of phases. Doka delineates specific issues that individuals with life-threatening illness must adapt to, and strategies for professionals to counsel them.

23x16cm

290 pages

$65.00

Family Focused Grief Therapy

A Model of Family-centred Care During Palliative Care and Bereavement

David W Kissane & Sidney Bloch

Family members are often intimately involved in the care of dying people and themselves require support through both their experience of palliative care and bereavement. This book describes a comprehensive model of family care and how to go about it.

23x15cm

252 pages

$57.95

Gentle Willow

A Story for Children about Dying (2ND ed.

Joyce Mills

Written for children who may not survive their illness or for the children who know them, this tender and touching tale helps address feelings of disbelief, anger, and sadness, along with love and compassion.

25x20cm

32 pages

$20.00

Good Grief

Granger Westberg

With gentle wisdom and acute insight into human nature, Westberg guides the reader through the stages of grief in this standard resource, originally published in 1962.

17x13cm

96 pages

$18.00

Grief Book

Strategies for young people

Elizabeth Vercoe with Kerry Abramowski

"Grief is like manure; if you spread it out it fertilises. If you leave it in a big pile, it smells like hell." Thomas Golden Here is a book full of practical ideas to help you or somebody you know move through grief.

23x15cm

208 pages

$19.00

Grief In Children

A Handbook for adults 2nd ed

Atle Dyregrov

This fully updated second edition of Grief in Children explains children's understanding of death at different ages and gives a detailed outline of exactly how the adults around them can best help them cope.

Whether a child experiences the death of a parent, sibling, other relation or friend, or of a classmate or teacher, it is important for those caring for bereaved children to know how to respond appropriately to the child's needs. This book deals with a range of common physical and psychological responses and describes the methods of approaching grief in children that have been shown to work best. The author provides guidance on how loss and bereavement should be handled at school, explains when it is appropriate to involve expert professional help and discusses the value of bereavement groups for children and support for caregivers.

Illustrated with case studies and incorporating current research, this book is essential reading for parents, carers, counsellors, teachers and all those concerned with the welfare of bereaved children.

22x14cm

207 pages

$38.95

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

Grieving Child

Helen Fitzgerald

Explaining death to a child is one of the most difficult tasks a parent or other relative faces. The Grieving Child now provides much-needed guidance, covering such areas as visiting the seriously ill or dying, especially difficult situations, including suicide and murder, attending a funeral, and the role religion can play.

21x14cm

208 pages

$28.00

Grieving Teen

A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends

Helen Fitzgerald

Although the circumstances surrounding a death are difficult to handle at any age, adolescence brings with it challenges and struggles that until now have been largely overlooked. But in this unique and compassionate guide, renowned grief counselor Helen Fitzgerald turns her attention to the special needs of adolescents struggling with loss and gives them the tools they need to work through their pain and grief. Writing not only about but also for teenagers, Fitzgerald adeptly covers the entire range of situations in which teens may find themselves grieving a death, whether the cause was old age, terminal illness, school violence, or suicide. She helps teens address the gamut of strong and difficult emotions they will experience and the new situations they will face, including family changes, issues with friends, problems at school, and the courage needed to move forward with one's own life. Using the clear and accessible format that has made "The Mourning Handbook" and "The Grieving Child" enduring and helpful classics, Fitzgerald guides teens through everything from the sickbed to the funeral, from the first day back at school to the first anniversary of the death. Above all, she lets teens know that even in their darkest hour, they are not alone.

21x13cm

224 pages

$26.00

Guiding Your Child Through Grief

Mary Ann Emswiler, James Emswiler

Give your child the help and support needed to cope with grief and loss. This is a highly praised program for grieving children which takes away the uncertainty and helpless feelings we commonly feel as we reach out to children who mourn. This caring and compassionate guide offers expert advice during difficult days to help a child grieve the death of a parent or sibling. Based on their experience as counselors--and as parents of grieving children--the authors help readers to understand:
The many ways children grieve, often in secret
Changes in family dynamics after death--and straightforward, effective ways to ease the transition
Ways to communicate with children about death and grief
How to cope with the intense sorrow triggered by holidays
The signs grief has turned to depression--and where to find help
And more insights, information, and advice that can help a child heal.

23x16cm

304 pages

$24.00

Healing Your Grieving Heart Journal for Teens

Alan D Wolfelt & Megan Wolfelt

This guided journal encourages teens to learn about grief and mourning - topics include - what makes each teen's grief unique; common feelings after a death, the six needs of mourning; capturing memories of the person who died; and achieving reconciliation.
Throughout, teens are invited to write down responses to questions about their grief. Spaces to attach photos and other memorabilia help personalize the journal.

23x15cm

118 pages

$24.00

Helping Bereaved Children

A Handbook for Practitioners

Nancy Boyd Webb, ed

This acclaimed work presents a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss. Practitioners and students are given practical strategies for helping preschoolers through adolescents cope with different forms of bereavement, including death in the family, school, or community. Grounded in the latest research on child therapy, bereavement, trauma, and child development, the volume clearly explains the principles that guide interventions. Featuring a wealth of new content, the third edition retains the case-based format and rich descriptions of the helping process that have made the book so popular as a practitioner guide and text.

New to This Edition *Significantly revised and updated to reflect new information and approaches; 9 new topics covered. *Covers additional types of loss: war-related death in the family, deaths connected to natural disasters, and the loss of a pet. *Additional therapy modalities: cognitive-behavioral therapy and play therapy; conjoint caregiver-child treatment; and bereavement groups and camps. *Addresses how to help parents and teachers meet bereaved children's needs. *Includes 11 reproducible assessment tools and handouts that can be photocopied by book purchasers or downloaded and printed from Guilford's website.

23x16cm

408 pages

$77.00

How Do We Tell the Children?

A Step-By-Step Guide for Helping Children and Teens Cope When Someone Dies 4th ed

Dan Schaefer, Christine Lyons

A practical guide for anyone who works or lives with children - parents, caregivers, counsellors, or teachers - to respond to their inevitable quiestions about loss and change, life and death. Provides strategies to assist children with grief and trauma and offers time-tested advice and language that children can understand.

This fourth edition includes new material on dealing with the traumatic stress of a large-scale catastrophe, handling the repercussions of school violence, helping grandparents manage as caregivers, and advising employers about how to support employees going through a famly loss.

20x14cm

202 pages

$26.00

How to Explain Death to a Child

A Guide for Adults

Wolfe Rakusin

In two parts, the first is for Adults to read to Children to explain the concept of Death in a simple, non-sectarian and non-threatening manner. Death is not a subject that is familiar to children and discussion of the subject is generally avoided, both at home and in the schools. Even adults are not comfortable speaking about their views of Death, so that most children have no knowledge about it, until Death affects the family personally - when it can have devastating effects, especially on the unprepared child. This explanation of Death and the Human Soul or spirit, is done in a way easy for the Child to relate to and understand.

The second part deals with the immediate After Effe4cts of the Death of a Parent or some close Famikly member, and suggests ways n which the Adult can, by their example and behaviour, help Children deal with a difficult situation, and how to assist Children to respond on a practical level, to situations that many Children are exposed to, in the early days after the Death of a Parent. (australian)

22x16cm

40 pages

$18.00

If I Stay

What would youdo if you had to choose?

Gayle Forman

For seventeen year old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend, decisions seem tough, even when they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope.
But life can change in an instant.
A cold february morning...a snowy road...and suddenly all of Mia's choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she'll ever be, Mia must make the most difficult choice of all.

Haunting, heart-rending and ultimately life-affirming, this book will make you appreciate all that you have, all that you've lost - and all that might be.

This is a work of fiction, and as such is part of our collection only because it's message is one of such importance.

21x14cm

210 pages

$29.95

Letters from Motherless Daughters

Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing

Hope Edelman

When the New York Times bestseller Motherless Daughters was published in 1994, author Hope Edelman--through research, interviews, and her own experience--helped women deal with the pain of losing a mother. Now, Edelman presents a selection of the moving, insightful letters she received in response to her book.

19x22cm

240 pages

$26.00

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

Nonfinite Loss and Grief

A Pysychodynamic approach.

Bruce & Schultz

Non-finite loss is grief that persists - when a person or their loved ones experience a chronic disability, illness, or other life-altering event they often endure painful and constant clashes between aspirations and reality, between what was and what is. Because this grieving process can be especially complex, counselors need to know how to provide therapy that recognizes and addresses their client's particular needs. Nonfinite loss cannot be reversed, but individuals can adapt by building emotional resilience and acknowledging and legitimizing their feelings. This compassionate book provides counselling professionals with tools and strategies to help clients do that. Aussie authors.

15x23cm

258 pages

$57.00

Someone I Love Died by Suicide

A Story for child survivors and those who care for them

Doreen Cammarata

This is a beautifully written book that is clear, concise, informative and extremely reassuring for those countless people who have been tragically touched through suicide. Just a little paperback picture story book, it seems relatively expensive, but well worth it.

21x21cm

$33.95

Something I've Never Felt Before

Doris Zagdanski

One of the few and classic books for teenagers dealing with grief.

15x23cm

92 pages

$16.95

Staring at the Sun

Overcoming the dread of death

Irvin D. Yalom

Written in Irvin Yalom’s inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality.
In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr Yalom helps us recognise that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our day-to-day anxiety. This reality is often brought to the surface by an ‘awakening experience’ — a dream, a loss (such as the death of a loved one, a divorce, or the loss of a job or home), illness, trauma, or ageing. Once we confront our own mortality we are inspired to rearrange our priorities, communicate more deeply with those we love, appreciate more keenly the beauty of life, and increase our willingness to take the risks necessary for personal fulfillment.
This is a book with tremendous utility, including the provision of techniques for dealing with the most prevalent kinds of fears of death — especially by living in the here and now, and by embracing what Dr Yalom calls ‘rippling’, the influence and impact we all have that has a life beyond our own.

21x13cm

306 pages

$29.95

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

Student Dies a School Mourns, A

Dealing with death and loss in the school community.

Klicker

Death, whether the result of violent or natural circumstances, is invariably a traumatic event in the lives of children. when that death occurs within the school community, there is a particular need to respond to the loss and the students' emototional reactions with both speed and sensitivity. This practical book examines the common reactions of students and staff to a death in the school community and provides schools with a systematic guide for developing a death-related crisis response plan. Youth suicide and violence in school is also extensively discussed.

15x23cm

145 pages

$48.00

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

Teens, Loss, and Grief

The Ultimate Teen Guide - It Happened to Me Series

Edward Myers

A self-help guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it presents. This book provides an overview of grief as a painful but normal process, offering insights from bereavement experts as well as practical suggestions for coping with loss, including accounts from teens. This book closes a gap in the available literature on grief and bereavement that has tended to focus on adults and younger children. It provides a warm, accessible resource that will reassure teen readers about the normality of grief, encourages their understanding of what happens during the grief process, and provides an indispensable resource guide.

25x18cm

176 pages

$25.00

Two of Them

Aliki

"The day she was born, her grandfather made her a ring of liver and polished stone, because he loved her already." Describes the relationship of a grandfather and his granddaughter from her birth until his death, very poignantly.

25x20cm

32 pages

$12.00

Understanding Death and Illness and What They Teach about Life

An Interactive Guide for Individuals with Autism or Asperger's and Their Loved Ones

Catherine Faherty

Death and illness affect every person. Witnessing the dying and death of a person or pet can leave you with many questions. In this book, author Catherine Faherty answers those questions in an autism-friendly, clear and precise way, geared for children, teens, and adults with autism. But this book is not just about death. It also demonstrates the interconnectedness of living and dying and offers simple, positive guidelines for living. Communication Forms to make it easier for the readers and their families, friends, teachers, therapists, or others to identify and respond to the unique needs of the reader.

27x22cm

341 pages

$36.95

Understanding Your Grief

Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

Alan Wolfelt

Explains the important difference between grief and mourning and answers the questions to allow mourner's to allow themselves to grieve. Describes 10 touchstones that are essentail physical, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual actions for you to take to help yourself heal.

22x15cm

176 pages

$24.00

Understanding Your Suicide Grief

Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

Alan Wolfelt

For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces 10 touchstones to assist the survivor in this naturally complicated and particularly painful journey. The touchstones include opening to the presence of loss, embracing the uniqueness of grief, understanding the six needs of mourning, reaching out for help, and seeking reconciliation over resolution. Learning to identify and rely on each of these touchstones will bring about hope and healing.

22x14cm

220 pages

$24.00

Unexpected Death in Childhood

A Handbook for Practioners

Peter Sidebotham

For families who have experienced the death of a child, their private tragedy is all too often exacerbated by an inappropriate or incompetent professional response. For the professional charged with the responsibility of having to deal with unexpected child deaths, such as a pediatrician, a police officer, or social worker, this title offers guidance on how to respond adequately to this tragic event but also places the subject in a larger social context, examining the history, epidemiology, causes, and contributory factors surrounding the death of a child. The book also covers the prevalence and types of death, the role of the police in an unexpected child death, how to support families, how to undertake a serious case review, and how to prevent child deaths in the future.

22x15cm

380 pages

$67.95

When Kids Are Grieving

Addressing Grief and Loss in School

Donna Burns

This primer helps educators understand and respond appropriately to students' unique expressions of grief, facilitate effective interventions, and determine when to refer a child to a specialist. Featuring helpful charts, quotes, activities, case studies, reproducible handouts, and resources from national organizations, this book offers strategies to hlep students affected by divorce; the death of a parent, relative, friend, or pet' violence; chronic illness and more.

25x18cm

108 pages

$41.95

Why Did You Die?

Activities to Help Children Cope with Grief & Loss

Erica Leeuwenburgh

Thousands of children each year experience the death of a loved one before they reach the age of 18, and some 10 to 15 percent of them experience mental health problems, such as depression, as a result. One study found that childhood grief is correlated with low grades, sleep problems, moodiness, behavior problems, and an inability to concentrate. When a loved one dies, children are faced with a kaleidoscope of feelings, thoughts, myths, and questions. This workbook offers tools that you can use to help a grieving child in your life deal with these feelings. The first section of Why Did You Die? is for adults. It describes a child's grief process and what can be expected as it progresses. The latter section includes activities you can do with a grieving child. Using an art therapy approach, the activities guide the child through the issues he or she must eventually confront. Different activities help the child express difficult feelings, separate myths from facts, and understand the finality of death. This direct yet non-threatening, secular approach will help children learn, grow, and thrive.

25x20cm

114 pages

$34.00


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