After the Storm: Healing after Trauma, Tragedy and Terror. Kendall Johnson, $19.50

Kendall Johnson calls this the 'New Age of Anxiety.' Today we are all challenged with the continual threat of war, terrorism, job loss, and political uncertainty. How do we cope? What actions can we take to best respond to personal and social crises? How do we help our children or the children in our care? How can we reestablish meaning in our lives? After the Storm shows people how to manage their emotional reactions in an emergency, stabilize those around them and, in time, work through the lasting effects of crisis.

• Part I helps readers to understand the scope of human reaction to overwhelming events.
• Part II explains how the brain deals with shock, how to understand delayed and complex reactions to trauma, and how to recognize symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
• Part III is devoted to self-care. It contains an overview of techniques and suggestions for handling anger, anxiety, extreme grief, withdrawal behavior and numbing.
• Part IV takes you beyond managing symptoms. The meaning of the event is explored, particularly as it affects who you are and where you are going.

Also included is a 20-page appendix which gives instructions for caring for yourself and your family emotionally during and after a traumatic event.

After the Suicide: Helping the Bereaved to Find a Path from Grief to Recovery. Kari Dyregrov, Einar Plyhn & Gudrun Dieserud, $31.95

Those left behind in the wake of suicide are often plagued by unanswered questions and feelings of guilt. Helping them to understand why the suicide happened, how suicide survivors commonly react and cope, and where they can find support can help them move forwards on their path from grief to recovery.

Drawing on the testimonies of suicide survivors and research into suicide bereavement, this book provides those working with the bereaved with the knowledge and guidance they need. It covers common grief and crisis reactions, including those specific to children and young people, how suicide bereavement differs from other forms of bereavement, and how others have coped and been supported. This book will be invaluable to all those supporting those who have been bereaved by suicide, including counsellors, bereavement support workers, social workers, and psychologists.

The Art of Healing Childhood Grief: a School-Based Expressive Arts Program Promoting Social and Emotional Literacy. Anne Black & Penelope Simpson, $65.95

The Art of Healing Childhood Grief contains everything a bereavement facilitator, school counselor or mental health professional needs to successfully design a safe, child friendly program to fit any loss situation so children can grieve...and heal. Drawing on a rich heritage of psychological, educational, primary prevention and creative traditions, Black and Simpson have designed and implemented an innovative, school-based support program to usher in a new approach to childhood grief. The Art of Healing Childhood Grief is filled with hundreds of expressive arts activities and a sequential curriculum organized in an easy-to-access format for professionals and lay facilitators to reference when working with an individual child, a small group of children or an entire school. Included in this manual is a chapter on responding to the needs of children in the aftermath of crises such as suicide, homicide, terrorist attacks and war.

Autism and Loss. Rachel Forrester-Jones & Sarah Broadhurst, $61.95

People with autism often experience difficulty in understanding and expressing their emotions and react to losses in different ways or in ways that others do not understand. In order to provide effective support, caregivers need to have the understanding, the skills and appropriate resources to work through these emotional reactions with them. Autism and Loss is a complete resource that covers a variety of kinds of loss, including bereavement, loss of friends or staff, loss of home or possessions and loss of health.

Rooted in the latest research on loss and autism, yet written in an accessible style, the resource includes a wealth of factsheets and practical tools that provide formal and informal caregivers with authoritative, tried and tested guidance.

This is an essential resource for professional and informal caregivers working with people with autism who are coping with any kind of loss.

Children’s Encounters with Death, Bereavement and Coping. Charles Corr & David Balk, Editors, $77.50

Children struggling with death-related issues require care and competent assistance from the adults around them. This book serves as a guide for care providers, including counselors, social workers, nurses, educators, clergy, and parents who seek to understand and help children as they attempt to cope with loss.

This book comprehensively discusses death and grieving within the context of the physical, emotional, social, behavioral, spiritual, and cognitive changes that children experience while coping with death. The chapters also explore new critical, imaginative conceptual models and interventions, including expressive arts therapy, resilience-based approaches, new psychotherapeutic approaches, and more.

Key features:

• Presents guidelines for assisting children coping with the loss of parents, siblings, friends, or pets
• Discusses ethical issues in counseling bereaved and terminally ill children
• Provides guidelines for helping children manage their emerging awareness and understanding of death
• Emphasizes research-based, culturally sensitive, and global implications as well as current insights in thanatology

Counseling Children and Adolescents through Grief and Loss. Jody Fiorini & Jodi Ann Mullen, $29.95

This comprehensive resource provides developmentally appropriate interventions for counseling children and adolescents who have experienced a wide range of grief and loss, including secondary and intangible losses such as moving or divorce. The book synthesizes current research and best-practice approaches for counseling youth. It provides a method for assessing individual needs and offers guidelines for selecting appropriate counseling strategies.

Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children. Liana Lowensiten, $31.95

A uniquely creative compilation of therapeutic games, art activities, and stories to help bereaved children express feelings of grief, learn basic concepts of death, diffuse traumatic reminders, address self-blame, commemorate the deceased, and learn coping strategies. Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children includes special activities for cancer, suicide, and homicide, and tips for caregivers and school personnel. For ages 7-12 in individual, group, and family therapy.

Doggone Grief Game. Aultman Grief Services, $49.95 (ages 3+)

Doggone Grief is a children's board game designed to help kids share their feelings about a special person who died.

Effective Grief and Bereavement Support: the Role of Family, Friends, Colleagues, Schools and Support Professionals. Kari Dyregrov & Atle Dyregrov, $39.95

Individuals in social networks surrounding bereaved people often feel very uncertain about how best to offer support following the death of someone close. As a result of this, people often find that their relationships with friends and family suffer in the wake of bereavement. Kari and Atle Dyregrov provide concrete, evidence-based advice about how support processes can be improved. Issues covered include common reactions to grief, problems that can arise within families as a result, when to involve professional assistance, how to help bereaved children, and the main principles for effective network support.

Gray's Guide to Loss: Helping Children with ASD Learn from Life's Setbacks. Jenison Autism Journal/Carol Gray, $5.95

Whether you are a parent or a professional working with a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), you are aware of the difficulties these children can have with even the simplest of losses or change in routine. Gray's Guide to Loss supports your efforts to guide a child with ASD through the unexpected events that each day brings, as well as how to respond to deep losses like critical illness and death. The goal is to prepare children with ASD for, and guide them through, unanticipated events — whether it is the loss of a bottle cap or a loved one. Over time, this translates into an effort to teach children with ASD to tie their experiences together and to learn from them how to effectively handle life's unexpected twists and turns.

Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: a Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner. J. William Worden, $49.50

An insightful, practical and compassionate approach to grief counseling.

Grief in Young Children: a Handbook for Adults. Atle Dyregrov, $18.95

Grief in Young Children explores young children's reactions to death and loss, both immediately after the event and over time. Full of practical advice on issues such as how to keep children in touch with their memories, answer their questions, allay their fears and explore their feelings through play, this accessible book enables adults to work with children to develop an acceptance of grief and an understanding of death and loss.

Grief Unseen: Healing Pregnancy Loss through the Arts. Laura Seftel, $33.95

An established art therapist and mental health counselor, Laura Seftel shares her own experiences of miscarriage and recovery, and describes the use of art and ritual as a response to loss in traditional and modern cultures. She presents a rich variety of artists who have explored pregnancy loss in their work, including Frida Kahlo, Judy Chicago and Tori Amos, and shows how people with no previous artistic experience can generate creative responses as part of the healing process. The book includes step-by-step exercises in guided imagery, poetry, visual art, journaling, and creating rituals.

This accessible, positive resource will be useful to practitioners in the fields of medicine, mental health, art therapy and counseling, as well as women and families who have suffered pregnancy loss.

GriefWork Healing from Loss: Reproducible, Interactive & Educational Handouts. Fran Zinmore & Ester Leutenberg, $53.95

GriefWork — Healing from Loss is for therapists and other professionals working to help grieving people heal from their losses. The handouts help leaders understand and empathize, while teaching participants to heal and grow.

Activities facilitate introspection and group interaction. The book's reproducible handouts and art work "map" the journey back to the “new normal”. The book is a great resource for an inevitable part of life.

The Grieving Student: a Teacher’s Guide. David Schonfeld & Marcia Quackenbush, $32.95

Death and grief will affect the lives of almost all children at some point, often leading to struggles with academic performance, social relationships, and behavior. Teachers can be a critical lifeline for a grieving child — and now they have a practical guidebook to help them provide sensitive support to students of all ages.

Author David Schonfeld is a veteran consultant to school crisis teams. Partnering with family therapist Marcia Quackenbush, he guides teachers through a child's experience of grief and loss, illuminates the classroom issues that grieving may trigger, and empowers teachers to undertake the rewarding job of reaching and helping their students. With this how-to guide to one of the most delicate issues an educator will encounter, teachers will give students the support they need to cope with grief and work their way back to full participation in academic and social life.

Healing Activities for Children in Grief. Gay McWhorter, $28.95

Dozens of activities and suggested resources suitable for support groups working with grieving children, preteens and teens.

Helping Bereaved Children: a Handbook for Practitoners, 3rd Edition. Edited by Nancy Boyd Webb, $32.50

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.

Helping People with Developmental Disabilities Mourn: Practical Rituals for Caregivers. Mark Markell, $15.50

This practical book offers 20 simple rituals that caregivers can use with people with developmental disabilities after a death. All of the rituals can be adapted to all ages and all levels of ability. These rituals have the power to transform a painful, confusing period by exploring the feelings of grief and loss, and expressing them in helpful, healing ways.

A Hospital Handbook on Multiculturalism and Religion: Practical Guidelines for Healthcare Workers, Revised Edition. Neville Kirkwood, $11.50

In our religiously pluralistic society, clergy, medical, and nursing staffs in modern hospitals are confronted with caring for people with varied beliefs and customs. Since the overall care of a patient, and not just the surgeries performed or medicines given, affect an individual's recovery, it is vitally important to be familiar with cultural and religious understandings and expectations around hygiene, pastoral care, autopsies, transfusions, and even the practices associated with death itself. A Hospital Handbook for Multiculturalism and Religion is a succinct guide to the care of patients from a variety of faiths … Each chapter examines not only the customs of adherents to various faith perspectives but also the significance of certain rites and attitudes, supplying health-care workers and chaplains with the information they need to provide the best care possible.

How to Design and Facilitate Grief Support Groups. Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care, $32.95

Professionals and lay people can find the means to offer effective grief support to their communities in this manual. Support materials include:

• Scheduling
• Publicity
• Facilitation techniques
• Troubleshooting
• Handouts & bibliographies
• Week-by-week outline of group activities

No Child Should Grieve Alone. Emilio Parga, $19.95

A guide for parents, caregivers and professionals.

On the Death of a Child, 3rd Edition. Celia Hindmarch, $56.50

This practical guide relates theory to practice, offers good practice guidelines and resources for further support and reading. It is illustrated with case studies and examples and is recommended reading for the many professionals who may be involved, including doctors, health visitors, social workers, teachers, police, counsellors and support organizations.

Parenting After the Death of a Child: a Practitioner’s Guide. Jennifer Buckle & Stephen Fleming, $43.95

The death of a child has a tremendous and overwhelming impact on parents and siblings, completely altering the psychological landscape of the family. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, parents face the challenge of not only dealing with their own grief, but also that of their surviving children. Parenting After the Death of a Child addresses this complex and daunting dilemma and presents the experience of losing a child and its subsequent impact on a family in a novel and effective way.

Partnered Grief: When Gay and Lesbian Partners Grieve. Harold Ivan Smith & Joy Johnson, $3.95

Insightful and compassionate, this is a unique guide for partners, family, friends and professionals.

The Quiet Mind: Resolving Grief. Loretta Oleck, $43.95

• For Children, Teens and Adults
• Easy and Ready to Use Activities
• Includes Book and CD

THE QUIET MIND: RESOLVING GRIEF is a compassionate guide for anyone who has experienced a loss. The photographs are linked to exercises and visualizations that aid in the process of healing grief, promoting resiliency, as well as offering strategies to help alleviate and resolve the pain of loss. The combination of activities and creative options along with the visual cues of the photographs lay out an easy-to-follow groundwork for healthy and needed change. The Quiet Mind series is suitable for educators, mental health professionals, and parents looking for practical and creative ways to modify or diminish negative behaviors and symptoms.

Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide, Revised Edition. Christopher Lukas & Henry Seiden, $22.95

Silent Grief is a book for and about “suicide survivors” – those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one. Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself — several members of his family have taken their own lives — and the book draws on his own experiences, as well as those of numerous other suicide survivors. These personal testimonies are combined with the professional expertise of Henry M. Seiden, a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

The authors present information on common experiences of bereavement, grief reactions and various ways of coping. Their message is that it is important to share one's experience of “survival” with others and they encourage survivors to overcome the perceived stigma or shame associated with suicide and to seek support from self-help groups, psychotherapy, family therapy, Internet support forums or simply a friend or family member who will listen.

Silent Grief gives valuable insights into living in the wake of suicide and provides useful strategies and support for those affected by a suicide, as well as professionals in the field of psychology, social work, and medicine.

Talking About Death and Bereavement in School: How to Help Children Aged 4 to 11 to Feel Supported and Understood. Ann Chadwick, $20.95

This short, easy to read book offers simple but important advice and guidance for all staff in a school setting who are in need of easily digestible and practical guidance on how to support children after bereavement. It includes advice on explaining death to children, insights into how children may be feeling and how they may react, and ways in which they can be supported. The book also covers how bereavement can affect a child and how it can affect the whole school in the case of a death of a pupil or staff member. It also stresses the importance of teaching the facts of death to children and includes ideas on how to incorporate this into lessons.

The Truth about Grief: the Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss. Ruth Davis Konigsberg, $17.00

The five stages of grief are so deeply imbedded in our culture that no American can escape them. Every time we experience loss — a personal or national one — we hear them recited: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

In The Truth about Grief, Ruth Davis Konigsberg shows how the five stages proposed by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kűbler -Ross more than forty years ago, became a national myth. She explains that current research paints a completely different picture of how we actually grieve. In the course of clarifying our picture of grief, Konigsberg tells its history, revealing how social and cultural forces have shaped our approach to loss. Deeply researched and provocative, The Truth about Grief draws on history, culture, and science to upend our country's most entrenched beliefs about its most common experience.

The strength of Konigsberg's message is its liberating force: there is no manual to grieving; you can do it freestyle.

The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide: Starting and Leading Bereavement Support Group. Alan Wolfelt, $25.95

For bereavement caregivers who want to start and run an effective grief support group for adults, this new Support Group Guide discusses the role of support groups for mourners and describes the steps involved in getting a group started. Responding to problems in the group is also addressed, as is a model for evaluating your group’s progress. In addition, information is included on ceremonies you can use to support people in grief on special occasions and holidays. This Support Group Guide is a must for all bereavement group leaders.

When a Child Dies: How Pediatric Physicians and Nurses Cope. Robert McKelvey, $29.95

How is it possible for practitioners of the healing arts to cope with the deaths of children and the devastating grief of their families? Physician Robert McKelvey looks squarely at this painful question and gets to the heart of it. In When a Child Dies the focus is on the grieving process of physicians and nurses for their child patients. There is a wealth of information here that will be recognizable and comforting to those already in the medical profession and that will help in the training of those about to enter the profession. Physicians, nurses, and medical students, as well as sociologists, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, the clergy, and families, will find this book invaluable.

When Someone Dies: an Accessible Guide to Bereavement for People with Learning Disabilities. Michelle Mansfield, et al, $16.95

This booklet has been designed by people with developmental delays for use by others with learning or cognitive disorders. The aim of the booklet is to guide them in learning to deal with their loss and to assist their caregivers in supporting them.

Young People’s Experiences of Loss and Bereavement: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach. Jane Ribbens McCarthy, $46.95

Young People’s Experiences of Loss and Bereavement offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary overview of our knowledge and theorizing of bereavement and young people. Looking through a great range of relevant literatures, this book explores how loss and bereavement impact upon young people's lives. Young People's Experiences of Loss and Bereavement provides essential reading on issues of loss, change and bereavement for students, researchers and professionals alike.