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Partners in Palliative Care

Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life

  • Edited by Mary Beth Morrissey, and Bruce Jennings.

Published August 2012

The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("Collaborative") is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for for palliative care and the methods for such care. It has grown from a small fledgling group to a…
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Complicated Grief

Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals

Complicated Grief
  • Edited by Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut and Jan van den Bout.

Published July 2012

“Stroebe, Schut and van den Bout have succeeded in drawing together leading researchers, clinicians and academics who, between them, provide a comprehensive view of a complex and contentious area of discourse that has important implications for us all.” - Colin Murray Parkes, author of Bereavement:…
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Techniques of Grief Therapy

Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved

Techniques of Grief Therapy
  • Edited by Robert A. Neimeyer.

Published April 2012

Techniques of Grief Therapy is an indispensable guidebook to the most inventive and inspirational interventions in grief and bereavement counseling and therapy. Individually, each technique emphasizes creativity and practicality. As a whole, they capture the richness of practices in the field and…
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Borrowed Narratives

Using Biographical and Historical Grief Narratives With the Bereaving

Borrowed Narratives
  • By Harold Ivan Smith.

Published March 2012

What do Dexter King, Condoleeza Rice, Mackenzie King, Corazon Aquino, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Cosby, Tony Dungy, Theodore Roosevelt, George H. W. and Barbara Bush, Caroline Kennedy, Arthur Ashe, Lady Bird Johnson, Colin Powell and C. S. Lewis have in common? They all have significant grief…
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The Compassion Fatigue Workbook

Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization

The Compassion Fatigue Workbook
  • By Françoise Mathieu.

Published December 2011

The Compassion Fatigue Workbook is a lifeline for any helping professional facing the physical and emotional exhaustion that can shadow work in the helping professions. Since 2001 the activities in this Workbook have helped thousands of helpers in the fields of healthcare, community mental health,…
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Working With the Bereaved

Multiple Lenses on Loss and Mourning

Working With the Bereaved
  • By Simon Shimshon Rubin, Ruth Malkinson and Eliezer Witztum.

Published October 2011

Working With the Bereaved summarizes the major themes in bereavement research and clinical work and uses the authors’ own cutting-edge research to show mental-health practitioners how to integrate these themes into their practice. It provides clinicians with a framework for exploring their own…
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Dealing with Disaster in Japan

Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash

Dealing with Disaster in Japan
  • By Christopher Hood.

Published September 2011

Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash involved the largest loss of life for any single air crash in the world. 520 people, many of whom had…
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Grief, Loss and Bereavement

Evidence and Practice for Health and Social Care Practitioners

Grief, Loss and Bereavement
  • Edited by Peter Wimpenny, and John Costello.

Published September 2011

Dealing with the social experience of grief, loss and bereavement are challenging areas for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved. This book draws together a comprehensive range of worldwide evidence for…
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Helping Grieving People – When Tears Are Not Enough

A Handbook for Care Providers

Helping Grieving People – When Tears Are Not Enough
  • By J. Shep Jeffreys.

Published April 2011

Helping Grieving People – When Tears Are Not Enough is a handbook for care providers who provide service, support and counseling to those grieving death, illness, and other losses. This book is also an excellent text for academic courses as well as for staff development training. The author…
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Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society

Bridging Research and Practice

Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society
  • Edited by Robert A. Neimeyer, Darcy L. Harris, Howard R. Winokuer and Gordon F. Thornton.

Published April 2011

Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is an authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. Its chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field, including the…
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