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Bereavement
BereavementAvailable from the Bookshop Rebecca Abrams draws on her personal and professional understanding of parental loss, as well as the experiences of many other adults, teenagers and young children, to provide the reader with an honest, compassionate and insightful exploration of the experience of losing a parent. Her father died when she was 19, and her stepfather died two years later. She believes that losing a parent at this age means encountering problems, which are often largely ignored or unrecognised. Rebecca Abrams now works as a counsellor.
There are a number of books on the effects of a young child''s death on parents - however, there is little written on the effects of the death of an adult child. This book is based on the author''s personal experience as well as the experiences of over 60 respondents to a letter and questionnaire on the subject. Respondents mainly came from a request for information placed in the newsletter of ''Compassionate Friends'', an international organisation for bereaved parents.
In this paper, Bremner, a member of the Candle team, tackles the problem of helping bereaved teenagers. She gives valuable advice about engagement and draws on her own experience to make the point that ''No matter how risky or uncomfortable it feels to us, almost any attempt to communicate and involve the young person is better than exclusion and silence''.
A short leaflet providing help on how to discuss funerals with children, how to include them in the service, and how to gain further support. Candle Project At the time of a death, parents may find it hard to think about how to care for their bereaved children. This A4 leaflet provides an excellent summary of the type of support needed by a child at this time. 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. This is probably the first book on bereavement for 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. Resources. Bibliography. Index Dyregrov Atle This useful book provides information on grief reactions in children and advice on a variety of strategies to deal with them, particular issues that relate to different types of bereavement (eg deaths of different relatives) and children’s understanding of death at different developmental stages. In addition the authors discuss sex differences in bereavement, handling death at school, working with children in groups and staff support. This new books deals with sudden and unexpected death. It brings together the latest knowledge on the subject and explores how social networks and professionals can help bereaved families deal with their loss. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. How Does Sudden Deaths Affect the Close Bereaved? 3. What Types of Support Do the Bereaved Encounter and What Do they Want? 4. Children and Young People - Their Situation and Help Needs. 5. How Does Sudden Death Affect Social Networks? 6. Social Network Support - Challenges and Solutions. 7. The Main Principles Behind Good Network Support. 8. What Kinds of Support Can Family and Friends Give? 9. What Kind of Support Can the School and Workplace Provide? 10. When Should Professional Help Be Brought In? 11. Support for the Social Network. Appendix. References. Subject Index. Author Index. Firth P, Luff G, Oliviere D (eds) This book brings together contemporary theoretical thinking on loss and bereavement supported by the experience of experts and clinicians practising in the field.
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. There are two parts to this book - the first is called a children''s read-along. This is designed to be read by adults and children together.
This book focuses on what happens after a death has taken place. Drawing on social theory and anthropology, contributors examine responses to death as they occur today. The book does not just document and make sense of contemporary practices but also critically reviews the ways grief, mourning and death ritual have been approached by academics and practitioners in the field. It combines substantial reviews with shorter illustrative examples of grief, mourning and death ritual, as they occur in specific settings and with defined groups. These examples include personal and institutional responses to death at different points in the life cycle, and responses to different sorts of death - the death of children and death in disasters for example. The examples include commentaries on bereavement work and on changes in both the funeral industry and memorialization practices. Mabey J (ed) Poems and text extracts from writers over many centuries, including short texts from a variety of religious writings, make this an anthology which will help many bereaved people. Monroe B 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 is also outlines how to help bereaved children.
The contact between a health care professional and a bereaved child can often be very brief, and yet the interaction can have a profound effect on the child, and on the professional. This is the result of a lifetime’s work. It covers a)patterns of attachment and patterns of grief, b) loss of a parent, child or spouse in adult life and c)social isolation and support. It concludes by looking at disorders of attachment and considers bereavement in terms of its implications on love, loss and change in a wider context. It includes with references to the extensive research and clinical work of Dr Parkes who has worked in close association with St Christopher’s since its foundation. Rawson Penny This book is written to assist any adult dealing with great loss, especially the death of someone close to them. It is based on personal experience as well as on her work as a psychotherapist. It provides practical information on the “symptoms” of people facing a loss.. She has some interesting views on the different cycles of grief as well as advice to people close to a grieving person. Evidence shows that bereavement is an issue that touches the lives of the majority of young people, and yet it is often left to the province of specialists. This timely book provides the first in-depth, interdisciplinary overview of our knowledge and theorizing of bereavement and young people including the voices of young people, as well as major statistical studies of cohorts of young people followed over many years. Riches G, Dawson P Written by a sociology lecturer and a bereavement services coordinator in the UK, this book explores the diverse family reactions to the death of an offspring or brother or sister. Coming to terms with such a great loss depends partly on the strength of the family itself, partly on the inner strength and the social support available to each individual member of the family. Subjects covered include the often ''invisible'' grief of fathers and siblings, lack of information and sudden or ''difficult'' deaths.
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 as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney. Walter Tony This stimulating book on the sociology of grief is a critique of both the positive and negative aspects of theories of grief and grief counselling. In particular the author considers that bereaved people find themselves caught between the living and the dead, sometimes searching for guidelines, sometimes finding their grief inappropriately pathologized and “policed”.
This chapter reflects on some of the techniques that can be used with bereaved children and adolescents to make connections with them, which make sense of their experience. A number of case examples are used to demonstrate situations where such techniques have been used. The therapeutic interventions discussed include amongst others, learning about the family, methods for engaging children, externalizing and time lines. Way Patsy 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. This is an excellent resource for both health professionals and for those who have been bereaved by suicide. The introductory section provides facts and figures about suicide and assesses who are the survivors. The bulk of the book is about the particular aspects of bereavement due to suicide - for example, the search for understanding, facing suicide as a family, and the particular impact on individual family members. Appropriate groupwork and counselling for those bereaved by suicide is considered in the third section. The book has an evidence base, which is provided by 49 people who have been bereaved by suicide, nearly all close family members. The author tape-recorded interviews with these people, and they are each given recognition by the inclusion of their first names as well as the first names of those who died. A book of readings for bereaved people, divided into eight themed chapters. This can provide those involved in bereavement work, as well as bereaved people, with ideas and emotions with which they can identify. It is also used by those involved in funeral services to provide appropriate texts The issue of close attachments in bereavement is especially apt when one considers bereaved twins. The author is a psychotherapist who is herself a bereaved twin. She examines twin loss at different stages in life and makes some theoretical observations in the light of personal experiences. This is a book of interest to those involved in working with bereaved people but will also be of particular interest to bereaved twins - at whatever stage in life they were bereaved - from the womb to old age. This is an excellent introduction to bereavement counselling for any health professional/counsellor. It covers a description of the bereavement process as well as the facilitation of normal and complicated reactions to grief. It has a chapter on particular situations such as suicide and abortion - and also covers family reactions to grief. It concludes with a chapter on dealing with the personal grief of the counsellor.
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