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This Healing Journey: An Anthology for Bereaved Siblings The Compassionate Friends ID: 92 |
Type: Booklet Category: Compassionate Friends Conference Inventory: 1 |
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We Need Not Walk Alone The Compassionate Friends Summer 2010 ID: 93 |
Type: Booklet Category: Compassionate Friends Conference Inventory: 1 |
| Literature from the Annual Conference in 2010. | |
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Getting Through the Holidays When You've Lost a Loved One Darcie D. Sims ID: 94 |
Type: Booklet Category: General Grieving Inventory: 5 |
| In many ways, suicide is one of the most difficult deaths to mourn. As you mourn the death of your friend or loved one, you probably feel a sense of betrayal. You have invested years of caring, loyalty, and patience with the deceased. Suddenly you are abandoned and rejected. Perhaps you have had such thought as: "How could she do this to me?" "Couldn't he think about the children?" "Weren't we enough for him?" Because you are bewildered by what has happened, you search for whys. A message left may help interpret what went on in the person's mind before the suicide. Yet the painful questions remain: "Why did he do it?" "Was she angry at me?" Learn to live with unanswered questions. We do have some clues why people choose suicide. We know that suicide is often the response to some kind of loss; to real or perceived failure; to physical, psychological, or spiritual pain. The person's problem becomes the only thing that exists, and he or she cannot conceive that life will ever become any better. | |
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The Bereaved Parent Harriet Sarnoff Schiff ID: 95 |
Type: Booklet Category: General Grieving Inventory: 1 |
| This is the classic book for parents whose child has died - and for all who want to help them. Many such parents feel that no one can help because no one can understand the complex ramifications of their tragedy: the exhaustion, the quarrels with mates, the sleeplessness, the panic, the inertia, the horror of laughter - all the seemingly endless aftermath of sorrow and despair. Yet, because she herself is a bereaved mother, Harriet Sarnoff Schiff is able to give genuine comfort. If you have lost a child, you know that pain like yours cannot be erased, and Schiff does not attempt to do so. Instead, she offers guidelines and practical step-by-step suggestions to help you cope with every stage of grief, from facing the funeral to rebuilding your marriage. Her book will convince you that you, too, can find your way back to the land of the living. | |
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To help you through the hurting Marjorie Holmes ID: 96 |
Type: Booklet Category: General Grieving Inventory: 1 |
| This book was written after the death of Marjorie Holmes first husband of 47 years in an effort to help others. | |
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When Someone Dies Edgar N Jackson ID: 97 |
Type: Booklet Category: General Grieving Inventory: 1 |
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Ended Beginnings Claudia Panuthos and Catherine Romeo ID: 98 |
Type: Booklet Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death Inventory: 1 |
| "Because of its wide scope (infertility, miscarriage, sudden infant death, abortion, release to adoption; emotional disappointments including handicapped babies, cesareans, premature or traumatic birth; and help for grieving children), this book will help parents and care-givers understand the great burden of all loss experience." American Baby's Childbirth Educator | |
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Miscarriage: A Book for Parents Experiencing Fetal Death Joy and Marvin Johnson ID: 99 |
Type: Booklet Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death Inventory: 1 |
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When a Baby Dies Martha Jo Church ID: 100 |
Type: Booklet Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death Inventory: 1 |
| Written to help give parents insights into the grieving process by those who have personally experienced the death of an infant. Covers the grief response, facing the world again, family members, and another pregnancy. | |
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When Pregnancy Fails: Coping with miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant death Susan borg and Judith Lasker ID: 101 |
Type: Booklet Category: Greiving from a Miscarriage, Prenatal or Neonatal Death Inventory: 1 |
| Advice on genetic counseling, prenatal diagnosis, support groups combines with personal accounts to help couples understand the impact of and cope with pregnancy problems | |
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Healing a Father's Grief William H. Schatz ID: 102 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving for Fathers and Men Inventory: 1 |
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A Grandparent's Sorrow Pat Schwiebert ID: 103 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving for Grandparents Inventory: 1 |
| Your child's baby has died, and sorrow fills your lives ina way that you may not have experienced in the past. You grieve not only the loss of your grandbaby that you will not get to enjoy growing up, but also for your child's loss in not being able to have what he or she wanted so much. It is a double loss for you, perhaps not as deep as the one your child will experience, but nonetheless significant, and in some ways more complicated. This booklet is offered to you as a source of comfort, and also as a guideline to help you journey with your child during this difficult time. | |
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An Introduction to Poetry Louis Simpson ID: 104 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Child Inventory: 1 |
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Dear Parents: Letters to Bereaved Parents Centering Corporation ID: 105 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Child Inventory: 1 |
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Grieving the Death of a Grown Son or Daughter Carol Luerbering ID: 106 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Child Inventory: 5 |
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Handling the Heartbreak of a Child's Death Andrea Gambill ID: 107 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Child Inventory: 3 |
| The death of a child is a jagged piece in life's puzzle, a discordant note in its symphony. Drawing upon her own loss, author Andrea Gambill offers practical, practiced advice for dealing with one of life's unthinkable tragedies. | |
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I will not Leave You Desolate Martha Whitmore Hickman ID: 108 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Child Inventory: 1 |
| This book provides help for parents in dealing with the pain and trauma associated with the death of a child. Simple and appropriate, the book contains short sections that are easy to read and easy to understand. To help you make that journey from overwhelming grief to a person still aware of that poignant loss, but cherishing the memories, relishing a full life, and grateful for both, is what this book is about. Pastors will find it helpful to keep a quantity on hand to give to people during grief experiences and in grief counseling. Check out books on the subject of grief and appropriate Bulletins (see the Related Products Section below). Did you know. . . Grief is the normal response of sorrow, emotion, and confusion that comes from losing someone important to you. The word "grief" comes from the same root as "grave." Although many times focused only on emotional responses to loss, grief also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. Grief responses are influenced by personality, family, culture, and spiritual and religious beliefs and practices. While many who grieve may be able to work through their grief independently, accepting additional support from counseling and support groups may promote the process of healing. The Book of Ecclesiastes reminds us "For everything there is a season... a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance..." | |
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Letters of Hope: Living After the Loss of Your Child Teresa Guillien ID: 109 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Child Inventory: 1 |
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Ordinary People of our Time Judith Guest ID: 110 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Child Inventory: 1 |
| Judith Guest wrote a remarkable book about an ordinary family's response to an extraordinary tragedy; it was so popular in its time precisely because the Jarretts could be any American family and what happened in their family could happen in anyone's family. Well, maybe not in anyone's family; most Americans aren't wealthy enough to live in a McMansion in an upper-middle-class bedroom community nor do most families own a boat; but income aside, the Jarretts are like most people one knows: a hardworking father, a mother who wants the best for her family, and two teenage sons, one outgoing and confident, the other quiet and retiring, living in his older brother's shadow. A freak boating accident leaves the older brother dead by drowning, and the family devastated. The parents, Cal and Beth, and their younger son Conrad, are left to cope with the aftermath. "Ordinary People" is the story of how they cope - or fail to. | |
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Parental Grief: Solace and Resolution Dennis Klass ID: 111 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Child Inventory: 1 |
| This compassionate book explores the unique nature of parental bereavement and the process through which it can finally be resolved. Based on the author's own extensive research with peer support groups of grieving parents, the book examines how a parent's sense of self and relationships with others are redefined when a child dies. It then outlines the many strategies of successful resolution, closely exploring four contexts: a self-help group of bereaved parents; a support group of parents of murdered children; a group of parents whose children had long-term illness; and a psychotherapeutic practice with bereaved parents. Case histories, interviews, and reflections written by bereaved parents are used to understand the lived experience of parents as they move through their grief toward solace and resolution. This readable yet scholarly volume is important for all who come into contact with bereaved parents, and particularly for mental health and human services professionals. | |
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The Poems of Sascha Wagner Sascha Wagner ID: 112 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Child Inventory: 1 |
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When Your Child Dies: Finding the Meaning in Mourning Nancy Comey Stevenson; Cary Higley Straffon ID: 113 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Child Inventory: 1 |
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Bearing the Special Grief of Suicide Arnaldo Pangrazzi ID: 114 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Loved One from Suicide Inventory: 11 |
| The suicide of someone you care about is a devastating tragedy. It happens in the best of families and to the best of people, shattering the lives of the shocked survivors. | |
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Home from Far Jean Little ID: 115 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Sibling Inventory: 1 |
| When her twin brother is killed in an accident, Jenny, feeling that part of herself is gone, is convinced that she will never get over the loss. | |
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Landscape without Gravity Barbara Lazear Ascher ID: 116 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Sibling Inventory: 1 |
| In July 1989 Barbara Lazear Ascher learned that her brother, Bobby, had died of AIDS at the age of thirty-one. With an older sister's efficiency, she notified her parents and arranged Bobby's cremation; then, almost against her will, she began to grieve. This extraordinary book is a record of what she encountered in that "landscape without gravity." Here is a bold account of a sister coming to terms with her brother's death and with the type of grief that arises only when one sibling loses another-a grief that is all too often unacknowledged and borne in silence. Here too is a map for that "hero's journey" we call mourning. Ascher locates the moments of healing inside the kind of hurt that seems to last forever, making this profoundly comforting, invaluable reading for anyone-especially brothers and sisters faced with loss. | |
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Surviving the Death of a Sibling TJ Wray ID: 117 |
Type: Booklet Category: Grieving the Death of a Sibling Inventory: 1 |
| When T.J. Wray lost her 43-year-old brother, her grief was deep and enduring and, she soon discovered, not fully acknowledged. Despite the longevity of adult sibling relationships, surviving siblings are often made to feel as if their grief is somehow unwarranted. After all, when an adult sibling dies, he or she often leaves behind parents, a spouse, and even children?all of whom suffer a more socially recognized type of loss. Based on the author's own experiences, as well as those of many others, Surviving the Death of a Sibling helps adults who have lost a brother or sister to realize that they are not alone in their struggle. Just as important, it teaches them to understand the unique stages of their grieving process, offering practical and prescriptive advice for dealing with each stage. | |
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Answers to a Child's Questions about Death JJ Hartenstein Mortuary ID: 118 |
Type: Booklet Category: Helping Children with Grief Inventory: 1 |
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Love, Mark Mark T Scrivani ID: 119 |
Type: Booklet Category: Helping Children with Grief Inventory: 1 |
| From end paper: "A series of Letters on Grief for Children (And those who used to be)." About the author: "Mark T. Scrivani is the youngest of eight children. He used to be the second-youngest of nine, but his little brother died in a car accident when Mark was seven. Five years later, his father died from cancer. Mark has also survived the deaths of his grandparents, other relatives and friends. He loves these people, and they still love him. Mark earned a B.A in Psychology from Canisius College, and an M.A. in Marriage and Family Counseling from Syracuse University. he is a psycho-therapist with a specialty in bereavement and loss issues. His private practice is located in the Syracuse (NY) area. Mark is the founder and moderator of HOPE FOR BEREAVED's HOPE For Youth support goup for young people in grief. Mark loves vanilla ice cream, sitting by a fireplace, reflecting by water, and most of all sunsets. He enjoys presenting workshops on grief and continues to learn from those he touches. His "Letters From Mark" are written to reach the child that lives in all of us. The letters are published in The HOPE Line, a monthly newsletter of HOPE FOR BEREAVED. Mark is an internationally recognized author of five books on grief for children. His most recent book, griefjouney, 1996, was written for teens and young adults." | |
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Where's Jess Joy and Marvin Johnson ID: 120 |
Type: Booklet Category: Helping Children with Grief Inventory: 1 |
| Illustrated by Paris Sieff, age 8. Simple and easy for children to understand. For siblings who had baby at home. Ages 3-6. | |
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Death Be not Proud John Gunther ID: 121 |
Type: Booklet Category: Process of Grieving Inventory: 1 |
| In Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther explores the process of death: discovery, fighting, living on, and then dying. The process becomes just a little bit easier, as humor, human kindness and courage all are woven in. More than just about dying, this memoir becomes a study of living. | |