Grief & Loss

Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is an authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. Its chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field, including the implementation of specific models in clinical practice, family therapy for bereavement, complicated grief, spirituality, and more. The volume's contributors come from around the world, and their work reflects a level of cultural awareness of the div... read more

Death is part of all our lives - the deaths of people we love, the experience of terminal illness, the grief of friends or family. Yet we tend to speak of it with difficulty. And we know little about death in other cultures - what rituals are sustaining, what might cause distress, or what is appropriate in medical procedure. Last Words is a short book about ways of acknowledging death in the different cultures and religions currently in New Zealand. While it is designed for use by people working with the dying and the bereaved,... read more

Lifting the Cloud, is a collection of weekly columns by Beth Dixon, first published in the Wanganui Chronicle between 2008 and 2009. The main focus of the columns - and therefore the book - is Grief, recognising it and managing it. The book is divided into seven sections: What is Grief, Managing Grief, Personal Issues, Family Issues, Children and Grief, Getting Older, and Wider Issues. The 52 chapters cover issues ranging from the grief associated with changing country, to the joy and grief of adoption; from insomnia to sep... read more

The loss of a loved one can be devastating. Here Molly Fumia offers a helping hand through the process of grief and recovery. Her wisdom comes from personal experience, and her writing is at once universal and highly personal.

Another invaluable resource from the author of Coming to Grief: a Survival Guide to Grief and Loss ($ 29.95). Grief counsellor Pam Heaney, a former funeral director, recognises that the major hurdle is not educating children about loss but equipping ourselves to do so. She gives clear, straightforward, practical advice for different age groups, especially teens.

Dr Yalom argues that 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.

Lessons of Loss explores how we react to loss, both physical and social, and adapt to it. Within the diversity of types of loss, Neimeyer recognizes and explores common themes and challenges that characterize the loss experience. The book is organized into three parts: those who grieve, those who help, and personal applications. This new edition has been updated and expanded to include all caregivers, not just the professional therapist.

In his seminal concept of "disenfranchised grief" as empathetic failure, Doka (gerontology, College of New Rochelle, NY) goes beyond fruitless comparisons of loss. These 26 theoretical, empirical, clinical, and educational chapters by experts in this field discuss how many types of loss can be validated via grief therapy, support groups, and ritual. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

We're all dying. Sooner or later we're going to croak, kick the bucket, give up the ghost, cash in our chips, shuffle off, bow out or go to our happy hunting ground. It's the one thing we all have in common. Yet no one seems to want to talk about it. Well, the people at Pilotlight do. This is not a book with all the answers. Just ideas, insights, advice and inspiring illustrations about a subject none of us can escape. Read it and then rush into the daylight to get on with the more challenging matter of living.

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you to see the world as a more profound place and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom that person was Morrie Schwartz.

Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring (Caritas) is now used in approximately 300 health care institutions in the United States and other institutions worldwide. This is the first international compendium of Caritas research, presenting the findings of 41 studies from 7 countries. The book examines similarities and differences in the ways in which each country applies Watson's Theory and documents the outcomes of these interventions. It addresses relationships between nurses and patients, nurses and their colleagues, self-care, and h... read more

This updated edition of the best-selling bereavement classic (more than 75,000 copies in print) explores tragic and sudden loss, authored by two women who have lost someone firsthand. Featured on ABC World News, Fox and Friends and many other shows, this book acts as a touchstone of sanity through difficult times. I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye covers such difficult topics as the first few weeks, suicide, death of a child, children and grief, funerals and rituals, physical effects, homicide and depression. With new material coverin... read more

Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. The legal choices confronting those caring for the terminally ill, and indeed those patients themselves who may be facing intolerable suffering towards the end of their lives, have been the cause of fierce public debate in recent years. The book takes as its starting point attempts in Britain and other countries to bring compassion into the rules governing the end of a patient's life. Drawing ... read more

This book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of wh... read more

Mental health professionals consider the impact of death on entire family systems, the multiple generational legacies of loss, and the differential impact of a death depending on the developmental timing when it occurs, the impact of loss on family functioning and the reorganization of roles and rel

Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a portrait of the mourning process in children. The volume 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. The book also compares parentally bereaved children with those who have suffered loss... read more

In this collection of inspirational essays, internationally known author Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross draws on her in-depth research of more than 20,000 people who had near-death experiences, revealing the afterlife as a return to wholeness of spirit. With frank and compassionate advice for those dealing with terminal illness or the death of a loved one, On Life After Death offers a compelling message of hope to the living, so that they may grow stronger from tragedy and live life to the fullest.

Grief is a natural reaction to loss but in some cases it can be devastating, preventing the bereaved from moving on with their life and affecting their relationships and work. This self-help guide offers an examination and explanation of the grieving process and offers strategies based on CBT to help someone adjust to life without a loved one.

Jean Watson's first edition of "Nursing," now considered a classic, introduced the science of human caring and quickly became one of the most widely used, respected sources of conceptual models for nursing. This completely new revision offers a contemporary update and the most current perspectives on the evolution of the original philosophy and science of caring from the field's founding scholar. It reflects on the universal effects of caring and connects caring with love as the primordial moral basis both for the philosophy and sc... read more

At the age of 22 Rebecca Arnold, an art student from Greendale in Canterbury, was diagnosed with a rare and vicious cancer. Thirteen months later this vibrant and talented young woman was dead, her family left to cope with a tidal wave of grief and loss. Sing No Sad Songs is a heartbreaking and yet beautifully composed memoir by Rebecca's mother, Sandra Arnold. It is a haunting story of bereavement, survival, courage and acceptance, as well as a fiercely tender account of a close mother-daughter relationship cut far too short. The ... read more