You Can Help Someone Who's Grieving
A common sense workbook with practical suggestions anyone can use.
Letters To My Husband
A book about widowhood, showing one woman's first year of mourning following the sudden death of her husband due to a heart attack. She relives the trauma of his death as well as many warm memories of their life together.
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
Healing following miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death.
Empty Arms: Emotional Support for Those Who Have Suffered Miscarriage or Stillbirth
By Pam W. Vredevelt. A book offering support to women who have lost a baby through miscarriage or stillbirth, written from the perspective of a Christian woman. Includes a chapter on helping children understand the loss. Reprint Edition, published 1995.
Give Sorrow Words
A father gropes for meaning after his only daughter is killed in a fire.
After the Death of a Child
A moving study of how parents cope with the ultimate loss.
Helping Children Cope With the Loss of a Loved One
Winner of the 1996 Parent's Choice Award.
Children Mourning, Mourning Children
Ken Doka. Children grieve in ways that are both similar to and different from adults. They also need significant support when facing loss. This excellent sourcebook gives a useful introduction to the field for educators and caregivers.
How Do We Tell The Children?
This book by Dan Schaefer and Christine Lyons gives parents and other adult caregivers a step-by-step guide for helping children two to teen cope when someone dies.
The Loss That Is Forever
Clinical psychologist Maxine Harris shows how the death of a parent before someone reaches adulthood is a life-defining event with profound and long-lasting effects. Ripple effects may appear in every aspect of adult development.
Motherless Daughters
Hope Edelman's bestseller on how experiencing the loss of a mother through death or desertion at any age has ramifications throughout a woman's life.
How To Survive The Loss Of A Parent
For adults who are seeking support.
Living With Grief
Kenneth J. Doka, . A compilation of cross-cultural essays on loss and grief with emphasis on ethnic, spiritual, class, and gender diversity in grieving. Includes a directory of resource organizations. This is the companion book for the 1998 bereavement teleconference sponsored by the Hospice Foundation Of America. Published April, 1998.
Recovering from the Loss of a Loved One to AIDS
Personal sharings are combined with professional views to suggest approaches to grief that may work for you.
Multiple AIDS-Related Loss
By David Nord. Through the personal stories of four very different survivors, the book helps explain why multiple AIDS-related loss has uniquely devastating features. Beyond explaining the problem of grief due to multiple loss, the book also offers suggestions on ways to heal from the impact of AIDS. Published June, 1997.
Breaking New Ground
This detailed guide to the development and operation of AIDS housing facilities includes project planning tips that will be hard to find elsewhere. While targeted specifically at AIDS residences, this book also will be useful to planners of other types of special needs housing, including general inpatient hospice services. Betsy Lieberman, Donald P. Chamberlain, authors. Published December, 1993.
Healing After The Suicide Of A Loved One
For family members left behind.
Trauma and Recovery
Judith Herman's influential book on stress disorders and the importance of creating a safe space to relearn how to be in the world.
Recovering From Trauma:
Violent Crime, Car Accidents, and Disasters
An audiocassette resource for survivors of traumatic stress that educates about trauma and stages of recovery.
When Bad Things Happen To Good People
Harold Kushner, a Jewish rabbi facing his own child's fatal illness, gives wise, compassionate, and practical advice on how to cope with anger, guilt, and grief following potentially overwhelming losses.
Loss: Depression And Sadness
This book completes John Bowlby's pioneering trilogy on attachment and loss. This volume concentrates on the major emotional consequences of loss, including feelings of sadness, depression, grief, and bereavement. The book includes the author's "four stages of grief" model.
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