Bookshop: Bereavement - working with young people

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The following books are available from the St Christopher's bookshop. For further information and details please contact the Librarian, St Christopher's Hospice

Childhood Bereavement Network

A death in the lives of… (DVD)

Childhood Bereavement Network 2001
£15.00

Young people (teenagers) describe their experiences of a major bereavement. They also describe how they have been helped by their teachers and (in this video) by attending the Candle Project at St Christopher’s. It is intended as a resource for training and education. In certain instances, it would also be useful for young people to view. It is helpfully divided into sections: support from family, things that have helped, how schools can help, what they have learned from the experience, the main messages.

Christ GH

Healing children's grief. Surviving a parent's death from cancer

Oxford University Press 2000
£20.99

This book is based on a study of 157 children (aged 3-17) in 88 families, who participated in a parent-guidance intervention through the terminal illness and death of one of their parents. The author identifies children's needs at various developmental stages, different grieving processes, their understanding of events and their interaction with families

Dyregrov A

Grief in young children

Jessica Kingsley 2008
£9.99

This is probably the first book on bereavement on pre school children.

Contents:

1. What Is Grief?
2. What Can Be Done to Help Children Who Have Suffered a Loss?
3. Children's Participation in Rituals.
4. How Do Children Process What Has Happened Over Time?
5. Supporting Children Over Time.
6. Advice to Parents.
7. Specific Advice.
8. Conclusion.
9. Resources. Bibliography. Index

Dyregrov Atle

Grief in children. A handbook for adults. 2nd edition

Jessica Kingsley 2008

Dyregrov is from Norway and is an expert on working with families and bereaved children. He outlines how different types of death - as well as death at different ages - can influence the bereavement outcome. He suggests guidelines for looking after children's needs as well as handling death in the school environment. There is also a chapter on bereavement groups for children.

Dyregrov A

Supporting traumatized children and teenagers

Jessica Kingsley 2010
£19.99

Trauma can result from a range of experiences from bullying to witnessing violence to living through war. This book explores the different reactions children may experience, and the impact trauma can have. The impact of trauma is explored examining aspects such as different developmental stages, gender, the reactions of friends and parents, the child's personality, and their caring environment. Effective ways of helping children after a traumatic event are outlined, and different types of therapy, such as group therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, are discussed.

Geldard K, Geldard D

Counselling children. A practical introduction 3rd edition

Sage 2008
£24.99

A practical guide that presents the theory and practice of counselling children. It is useful for any practice-setting offering counselling services for children. It includes practical elements of counselling children such as the process of selecting and the uses of a range of media as well as a set of worksheets to use with children for developing self-esteem or managing emotions. While not specifically aimed at bereaved children, it is useful in this setting.

Geldard K, Geldard D

Counselling adolescents. The proactive approach for young people.

3rd edition.
£25.99

The book will be of particular interest as a textbook and resource to all professionals who work with emotionally disturbed young people, and will provide an excellent resource for any health professional. Two chapters, new to this edition, are on a)working with a young person collaboratively throughout a counselling process and b)ethical and professional issues that relate to working with this age group.

Monroe B

Children and bereavement

Extract from Open University Course K260 2001
£1.30

This is a succinct account concerning strategies to help children to talk about people they know who are terminally ill, and to begin to prepare them for the death. It also outlines how to help bereaved children at different developmental stages of their lives.

Monroe B, Kraus F (eds)

Brief interventions with bereaved children. 2nd edition.

Oxford University Press, 2010
£29.95

This volume reflects the great range of multidisciplinary interventions and outreach services available for bereaved children, mainly in the UK but also in other countires. As such it illustrates both a clinical and public health approach to helping bereaved children. It emphasises the importance of including family and children in evaluating the services and the writers embed current theories of grief and research as they discuss the development of particular services.

Examples of chapters include: supporting very young children, working with volunteers, family assessment, a sibling carer story, police family liaison, groupwork, working with families pre-bereavement. Barbara Monroe instigated the Candle Project for bereaved children at St Christopher’s and Frances Kraus runs the project

Ribbens-McCarthy J, Jessop J.

Young people, bereavement and loss. Disruptive Transitions?

National Childrens’ Bureau/Joseph Rowntree Fund 2006
£13.95

This is an extensive survey that researches the extent to which young people are affected by bereavement in the UK. Other dimensions include young peoples’ experiences of bereavement, constructing a knowledge base for working with bereaved young people, the extent to which it is a “risk” factor in the lives of young people and the social contexts of bereavement experiences and interventions.

Rowling L

Grief in school communities

Open University Press, 2003
£22.99

A great deal of material on child bereavement has a focus on the child within the family context. This book is a guide for teachers and other professionals involved in the care of children who have suffered loss and who need to devise strategies to assist them within the school environment. "...It has suggestions about curriculum development, critical incident management and creating effective pastoral communities, as well as helping upset children in the classroom, running support groups and meeting parents..." (Barbara Monroe, CEO at St Christopher''s Hospice in the foreword). The book is grounded on the extensive research and practice of the author who is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney.

Way Patsy

Michael in the clouds. Talking to very young children about death

Bereavement Care 2008 v27 no 1 page 7-9
£0.30

Patsy Way is a systemic family therapist and works for the Candle project at St Christopher’s Hospice. Using a case study she illustrates how very young children can join in concrete play activities that helps their understanding of a death.