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Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts - edited by Gillie Bolton - October 2007

"I found this book very difficult to work through. It is a compilation of a wide range of programmes describing therapy through the arts..."

 

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Empowering Children through Art and Expression - Bruce St. Thomas and Paul Johnson - 2007

"...For anyone new to the subject of grief work with children, and wanting to support children bereaved by suicide, this book provides a starting point..."

 

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Silent grief - C. Lukas - April 2007

"..the distinctive feature of this text is its exploration of the effects of the silence that surrounds a suicide bereavement...."

 

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Let me finish - Udo Grashoff - January 2007

"This anthology of suicide notes has been arranged with sensitivity and without sensationalism...."

 

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Shades of suicide - Ann Davies - April 2006

" I thought this book was exceptionally well written...."

 

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Living with loss and grief - Julia Tugenhadt - November 2005

" I have just finished reading this book, it took 25 hours, I could not put it down...."

 

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Children and grief: when a parent dies - J William Worden - January 2002

" This book is the result of a very substantial study of 125 children who had lost a parent in Boston, USA, together with a comparative study of 70 children who had not been bereaved...."

 

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Standing in the shadow - June Cerza Kolf - December 2002

" This little book of just ninety pages is packed full of hope and healing...."

 

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Coping with suicide - Maggie Helen - 2002

" There are very few books I have read where the back cover speaks truthfully for the book itself. This is one of them....."

 

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A special scar: the experience of people bereaved by suicide - Alison Wertheimer - June 2001

" Alison Wertheimer shows an acute understanding of the feelings of survivors, perhaps particularly because she has shared the trauma with those who she interviewed...."

 

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One step at a time: mourning a child - Betty Madill - April 2001

" The opening paragraph will register with so many bereaved parents 'When we lose a child, part of us dies too'...."

 

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A Voice for those Bereaved by Suicide - Sarah McCarthy - 2001

"Sarah McCarthy’s story of her ex-husband’s death is a first-person account of suicide bereavement..."

 

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An empty chair: living in the wake of a sibling's suicide - Sara Swan Miller - May 2000

" Sara Swan Miller has written this book to explain the often marginalised bereavement of siblings...."

 

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Leaving early: youth suicide: the horror, the heartbreak, the hope - Bronwyn Donaghy - August 1997

" Why should young people with so much life in front of them decide to end it all?...."

 

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Helping children cope with grief - Rosemary Wells - May 1988

" This excellent little book gives a great deal of practical help to parents and others who are helping children cope with grief. ...."

 

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