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Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts

Edited by Gillie Bolton

Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts describes a range of successful programmes pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings. These range from simple painting and writing activities to organized communal activities like writing and performing a play.

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-516-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 216pp, 2007, £19.99, $34.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Health Care, Interdisciplinary Arts Therapies, Working with Older People

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Autism and Loss

Rachel Forrester-Jones and Sarah Broadhurst

People with autism often experience difficulty in understanding and expressing their emotions and react to losses in different ways or in ways that carers do not understand. In order to provide effective support, carers 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.

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-433-9, US Letter, 208pp, 2007, £29.99, $55.00

Categories: Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Bereavement and Palliative Care, Counselling

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The Colors of Grief

Understanding a Child's Journey through Loss from Birth to Adulthood

Janis A. Di Ciacco PhD

Following a life shattering experience, a child enters upon a confusing emotional journey that can be likened to a prism of many colors of dark feelings like sadness and fear, but also warm feelings of love and courage. The way they deal with these feelings has a lasting impact on their life as they grow.

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-886-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp, 2008, £12.99, $19.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Child Psychiatry and Psychology, Education, Parenting, Working with Children and Families

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The Creative Arts in Palliative Care

Edited by Nigel Hartley and Malcolm Payne

Use of the arts in palliative care settings is a powerful and effective way of addressing the practical, psychological, social and spiritual issues faced by service users in end-of-life care.
The Creative Arts in Palliative Care uncovers the possibilities for using the creative arts and provides guidance on how to implement arts projects successfully. Part 1 focuses on designing objectives for the creative arts in palliative care - such as self-fulfilment, social participation, diversion from pain and other common symptoms - and managing creative arts services. Part 2 demonstrates the theory and principles in practice, with detailed case studies: each chapter draws on a real-life project, the approaches it employed and the outcomes achieved.

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-591-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp, 2008, £18.99, $34.95

Categories: Arts Therapies, Bereavement and Palliative Care, Counselling, Working with Older People

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Effective Grief and Bereavement Support

The Role of Family, Friends, Colleagues, Schools and Support Professionals

Kari Dyregrov and Atle Dyregrov

' …a profoundly significant book on a topic rarely discussed and little researched, dealing with sudden or unexpected death. The authors have brought together the latest knowledge in the field, and explore how social networks and professionals working with the bereaved can help. This is an important book for all of us, who will sadly one day experience this... it is a must read for those in the field and those suffering.'

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-667-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp, 2008, £19.99, $39.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Counselling, Education, Working with Children and Families

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Grief in Children

A Handbook for Adults
2nd edition

Atle Dyregrov

Praise for the first edition:
'This is a very user-friendly book. It is presented in a way which enables the reader to browse or go direct to a certain section, but at the same time is engaging enough to sustain one's interest to read the whole book.'

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-612-8, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 208pp, 2008, £14.99, $24.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Child Psychiatry and Psychology, Education, Parenting, Working with Children and Families

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Grief in Young Children

A Handbook for Adults

Atle Dyregrov

'This insightful text will be of great help to all who care for pre-school children - parents, kindergarten teachers, ministers of religion, police, welfare workers - the list is endless. If they learn the values reflected in this small book, then bereaved children everywhere will grow up with far fewer hang-ups about the only certainty in life.'
- from the foreword by Professor William Yule

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-650-0, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 96pp, 2008, £9.99, $18.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Child Psychiatry and Psychology, Education, Parenting, Working with Children and Families

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Overcoming Loss

Activities and Stories to Help Transform Children's Grief and Loss

Julia Sorensen
Illustrated by Maryam Ahmad

Overcoming Loss is a photocopiable resource that addresses childrens' feeling of loss, which can arise from changing communities, schools, moving house, divorce or the death of a parent or grandparent. Children are limited to a vocabulary of broad emotions like 'happy', 'sad' and 'angry', and are often unable to articulate their grief in words. This can impair their long-term emotional development.

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-646-3, 279.4mm x 216mm / 11in x 8.5in, 144pp, 2008, £19.99, $35.00

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Counselling, Parenting, Working with Children and Families

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Speaking of Dying

A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care

Louis Heyse-Moore

Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying patient, and an engaging, empathic bond between two people.

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-678-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp, September 2008, £17.99, $34.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Dementia, Health Care, Spirituality, Working with Older People

All Bereavement and Palliative Care titles in alphabetical order

Attending to the Fact – Staying with Dying

Hilary Elfick and David Head
Edited by Cynthia Fuller

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-247-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 128pp, 2004, £13.99, $27.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Practical Theology

Autism and Loss

Rachel Forrester-Jones and Sarah Broadhurst

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-433-9, US Letter, 208pp, 2007, £29.99, $55.00

Categories: Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Bereavement and Palliative Care, Counselling

Being Mindful, Easing Suffering

Reflections on Palliative Care

Christopher Johns

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-212-0, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp, 2004, £19.99, $34.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Practical Theology

Bibliotherapy for Bereaved Children

Healing Reading

Eileen H. Jones

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-004-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 144pp, 2001, £16.99, $32.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Storymaking

A Bolt from the Blue

Coping with Disasters and Acute Traumas

Salli Saari
Translated by Annira Silver

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-313-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp, 2005, £22.99, $39.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Counselling, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Children Also Grieve

Talking about Death and Healing

Linda Goldman

Hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-808-5, 173mm x 123mm / 10in x 4.75in, 80pp, 2006, £16.99, $22.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Parenting, Working with Children and Families

Children, Bereavement and Trauma

Nurturing Resilience

Paul Barnard, Ian Morland and Julie Nagy

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85302-785-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp, 1999, £17.99, $32.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Working with Children and Families

The Colors of Grief

Understanding a Child's Journey through Loss from Birth to Adulthood

Janis A. Di Ciacco PhD

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-886-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp, 2008, £12.99, $19.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Child Psychiatry and Psychology, Education, Parenting, Working with Children and Families

The Creative Arts in Palliative Care

Edited by Nigel Hartley and Malcolm Payne

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-591-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp, 2008, £18.99, $34.95

Categories: Arts Therapies, Bereavement and Palliative Care, Counselling, Working with Older People

Dealing with Death

A Handbook of Practices, Procedures and Law
2nd edition

Jennifer Green and Michael Green

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-381-3, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 352pp, 2006, £40.00, $79.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Health and Social Care, Practical Theology, Social Work Law

A Dragon in Your Heart

Sophie LeBlanc

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85302-701-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 36pp, 1999, £7.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Parenting

Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts

Edited by Gillie Bolton

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-516-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 216pp, 2007, £19.99, $34.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Health Care, Interdisciplinary Arts Therapies, Working with Older People

Effective Grief and Bereavement Support

The Role of Family, Friends, Colleagues, Schools and Support Professionals

Kari Dyregrov and Atle Dyregrov

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-667-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp, 2008, £19.99, $39.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Counselling, Education, Working with Children and Families

Empowering Children through Art and Expression

Culturally Sensitive Ways of Healing Trauma and Grief

Bruce St Thomas and Paul Johnson

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-789-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp, 2007, £19.99, $29.95

Categories: Arts Therapies, Bereavement and Palliative Care, Counselling, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Working with Children and Families

Finding a Way Through When Someone Close has Died

What it Feels Like and What You Can Do to Help Yourself: A Workbook by Young People for Young People

Pat Mood and Lesley Whittaker

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85302-920-2, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 64pp, 2001, £8.95, $15.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Education

The Forgotten Mourners

Guidelines for Working with Bereaved Children
2nd edition

Sister Margaret Pennells and Susan C Smith

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85302-758-1, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 112pp, 1999, £9.95, $19.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Education

Good Grief 1

Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Under Elevens: 2nd Edition

Barbara Ward and Associates

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85302-324-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 276pp, 1995, £29.95, $52.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Education

Good Grief 2

Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Over Elevens and Adults: 2nd Edition

Barbara Ward and Associates

Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85302-340-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 276pp, 1995, £29.95, $59.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Education

Grandad's Ashes

Walter Smith

Hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-517-6, 210mm x 210mm / 8.25in x 8.25in, 32pp, 2007, £8.99, $14.95

Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Counselling, Parenting, Working with Children and Families