Specialized Grief Resources
This section provides a wide range of support ranging from loss of a parent or child to help for dealing with a sudden loss. Some other topics include dealing with long-term illness and making the nursing home decision.
 | Creating Meaningful Funeral Experiences: A Guide For Caregivers A groundbreaking handbook full of insights about the importance of meaningful funeral ceremonies. An inspiring guide for clergy and others who help bereaved families plan and carry out authentic funeral rituals. |
 | Grief, Dying, and Death A clinical examination and interventions for caregivers. |
 | Living With Dying A sensitive and insightful book about the struggles of real people struggling with dying- their own dying, and the dying of people close to them. |
 | Grief Comes To The Class A book to assist school personnel and parents of grieving children to be a positive, significant caregiver for bereaved students. |
 | When You Know You're Dying A book with 12 basic guidelines created by the author to assist those who know their life is limited. The focus is on the whole person- body, mind, heart, and soul. |
 | On Grieving The Death Of A Father A book specialized in the grieving process for the loss of a father. It focuses on dozens of sons and daughters reflecting upon the impact of their own fathers on their lives, and their loss. |
 | Healing Your Traumatized Heart 100 practical ideas after someone you love dies a sudden, violent death. A book for those who grieve after a homicide, suicide, or accidental death. This book explores some of the basic principles of traumatic grief and also gives practical suggestions for moving beyond the trauma and embracing your grief. |
 | How Will I Get Through The Holidays? 12 Ideas for coping with grief during the holiday season. |
 | When Parents Die A practical and sensible look at one of the most common, and difficult, events in our lives. Gives practical psychological reassurance to aide in coping with such an overwhelming event. |
 | Making Loving Memories A gentle guide to what you can do in the event of the death of a baby. |
 | Not Just Another Day A short book dealing with mourning on holidays and other notable days. |
 | A Look In The Mirror A handbook specialized for widowers. |
 | One You Love Is Dying 12 key points to guide you to understanding the experience. |
 | Near Life's End What family and friends can do to share more deeply with loved ones who are sick or dying. |
 | When A Man Faces Grief 12 practical points specifically targeted for men to deal with grief. |
 | Helping the Bereaved Celebrate the Holidays A sourcebook for planning educational and remembrance events. |
 | Healing A Parent's Grieving Heart 100 practical ideas to give grieving parents compassionate advice and simple activities to learn to live again. |
 | A Broken Heart Still Beats After Your Child Dies A Remarkable collection of poetry, fiction, and essays compiled by a journalist and social worker, both of whom have lost a child. It gets to the heart of this hardest trials, exploring the shock, grief and the search for meaning that come with the death of a child. Seasoned with wisdom and experience, their words offer rare comfort and insight to those who need it most. |
 | Thoughts for the Lonely Nights For a person in grief, the night rarely brings rest and relief. Often that is when all the questions, hurts and tears find a way to come out. Doug brings his best discussions about loss and the grief journey and how to find help and comfort along the way. |
 | Coping with the Holidays - The road to recovery Holidays are especially difficult if you've recently lost the love of another person through death. By planning ahead, however, and dealing realistically with your holiday expectations, you can ensure your days are filled with peaceful satisfaction rather than painful sadness. |
 | FatherLoss: How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms With the Deaths of Their Dads Based on a landmark national survey of 300 men, and in depth interviews with 70 others, FATHERLOSS is the first book that focuses specifically on how sons cope with the deaths of their dads. |
 | Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack This volume examines the subject of abrupt, unexpected death and its effects and implications for the survivors left behind. Topics covered include: after heart attack and stroke, survivors of suicide, complicated grief in the military, and grief counselling for survivors of traumatic loss. |
 | Finding Your Way After Your Parent Dies: Hope for Grieving Adults Rev. Richard Gilbert has created a compassionate guide for those struggling with the loss of a parent. Gilbert sketches out some of the issues that arise in the wake of a parent's death and offers practical suggestions for navigating these difficulties. |
 | The Empty Chair: The Journey of Grief After Suicide When a loved ones completes suicide, the reaction to such a sudden and final act can sometimes delay the healthy grieving process. This new book describes and offers guidance for each emotion and issue that one encounters following a suicide. |
 | Death Be Not Proud Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. |
 | When Love Gets Tough This book, first written in 1983 has touched over a million people by providing wisdom and guidance in making a nursing home placement for a loved one. |
 | Share My Lonesome Valley Long-term care means the caregiver is busy, overwhelmed and tired with very little opportunity to realize or reconcile the gradual losses that take place. This takes a toll on the caregiver, the family and the patient. Doug outlines the dangers and issues and gently provides opportunities for the caregiver to deal with the "quiet sorrows" that make this type of caregiving a difficult task. |
 | Aging Is a Family Affair Family meetings...legal planning...financial considerations...choosing the right care...helping the caregiver...all of these topics are of great concern to a family faced with planning care for an aging loved one. |
 | But I Never Thought He'd Die Practicality, personal experience, and proven writing style make this book most helpful not only to widows, but to their friends, pastors, physicians, adult children, and others who care about them. |
 | A Family Guide to Death and Dying A Family Guide to Death and Dying is a handbook of practical advice to effectively deal with the issues of nursing homes, terminal illness, living with pain, dealing with the fear of death, handling the suicide of a loved one, and preparing for the funeral of a family member. |
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