Psychotherapy and Counselling Arena

Grief After Suicide

Understanding the Consequences and Caring for the Survivors

• Edited by John R. Jordan, and John L. McIntosh.

Published October 2010

There are over 30,000 suicide deaths each year in the United States alone, and the numbers in other countries suggest that suicide as a cause of death will be around for the foreseeable future. A suicide leaves behind more victims than just the individual, as family, friends,…
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Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

The Experience of Survivorship

• By Anne Grinyer.

Published April 2009

Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important work offers a glimpse into a previously…
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Hospice and Palliative Care

The Essential Guide

• By Stephen R. Connor.

Published April 2009

In the past 35 years, the hospice movement has undergone major changes and has grown enormously. Palliative care is of growing importance to society as our culture struggles with how to provide compassionate end-of-life care to a growing segment of the population. This book provides professionals…
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The Children Who Lived

Using Harry Potter and Other Fictional Characters to Help Grieving Children and Adolescents

• By Kathryn A. Markell, and Marc A. Markell.

Published April 2008

Harry Potter’s encounters with grief, as well as the grief experiences of other fictional characters, can be used by educators, counselors, and parents to help children and adolescents deal with their own loss issues. The Children Who Lived is a unique approach toward grief and loss in children.…
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Handbook of Thanatology

The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement

• Edited by David Balk.

Published October 2007

If ever there was an area requiring that the research-practice gap be bridged, surely it occurs where thanatologists engage with people dealing with human mortality and loss. The field of thanatology - the study of death and dying - is a complex, multidisciplinary area that…
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Pastoral Care With Young and Midlife Adults in Long-Term Care

• By Jacqueline Sullivan.

Published September 2007

Learn how to work with people who are in need of long-term care to achieve a higher quality of lifeA person living with a disAbling condition has issues and challenges much different from others. Pastoral Care with Young and Midlife Adults in Long-Term Care puts a needed spotlight on various…
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The Art of Grief

The Use of Expressive Arts in a Grief Support Group

• Edited by J. Earl Rogers.

Published June 2007

Art and other expressive therapies are increasingly used in grief counseling, not only among children and adolescents, but throughout the developmental spectrum. Creative activities are commonly used in group and individual psychotherapy programs, but it is only relatively recently that these…
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Remember Me

Constructing Immortality - Beliefs on Immortality, Life, and Death

• Edited by Margaret Mitchell.

Published January 2007

Remember Me brings together contributors from around the world with unique insight on the ways in which one's relationship with loved ones continues, endures, and perhaps even grows after death. Much of the available literature speaks of healthy bereavement as letting go of the deceased and…
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Pet Loss and Human Emotion, second edition

A Guide to Recovery

• By Cheri Barton Ross, and Jane Baron-Sorensen.

Published January 2007

This updated edition of Pet Loss and Human Emotion is a step-by-step guide to leading clients through this special kind of grief. Includes resources and a section on pet loss and natural disasters. As society accepts that grieving over the death of a loved one is not only normal, but healthy and…
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Violent Death

Resilience and Intervention Beyond the Crisis

• Edited by Edward K. Rynearson.

Published October 2006

This book pulls together a definitive collection of work on the theory and practice of clinical, spiritual, and emotional support after the experience of violent death - counseling beyond the crisis. Over the past decade, there have been countless publications devoted to crisis response, crisis…
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