- Adult Bereavement Bibliography
- Grief and Spirituality
- Loss of a Child
- Loss of a Parent
- Loss of a Spouse or Partner
- Complicated Grief
- Websites
Adult Bereavement Bibliography
| Albom, Mitch. | Tuesdays with Morrie | Doubleday |
| Attig, Thomas | How We Grieve: Relearning the World The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love | Oxford University Press, 1996 Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| Ban Breathnack, Sarah | Simple Abundance | |
| Baugher, R. and Calija, M. | A Guide for the Bereaved Survivor: a List of Reactions, Suggestions and Steps for Coping with Grief | 1981 |
| Beck, Martha | Finding Your Own North Star | |
| Benoliel, J.Q | Anticipatory Grief in Physicians and Nurses | Columbia University Medical Center, 1972 |
| Bernstein, J. and Gullo, S. | When People Die Loss and How to Cope with It | Dutton, 1977 Seabury Press, 1977 |
| Blair, Pamela | I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One | 2008 |
| Bonnano, George | The Other Side of Sadness | |
| Bowlby, John | Attachment Separation, Anxiety and Anger Loss | 1969 1973 1980 |
| Brown, Brene | I Thought It Was Just Me | |
| Byeck, Ira | The Four Things that Matter Most | 2004 |
| Canfield, Jack and Hansen, Mark Victor | Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul | 2003 |
| Cento, W. F. (Bill). | Alone / For All Those Who Grieve. | Tasora Books, September 2011. |
| Chodron, Pema | When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times | 1997 |
| Donnelly, Katharine Fair | Recovering from the Loss of a Sibling | Berkley Publishing Group, 1994 |
| Eldon, Kathy | Angel Catcher: A Journal of Loss and Remembrance | Chronicle Books, 2007 |
| Emswiler, Mary Ann | Guiding Your Child Through Grief | 2000 |
| Eneroth, Carlene | Does Anybody Else Hurt This Bad If There’s Anything I Can Do… | 1994 1988 |
| Ferguson, Dorothy | When Winter Follows Spring: Surviving the Death of an Adult Child | |
| Fine, Carla | No Time To Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One | |
| Fitzgerald, Helen. | The Mourning Handbook | New York: Simon and Schuster, A Fireside Book, 1994. |
| Fogarty, James A. | The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children | 2000 |
| Frankl, Victor | Man’s Search for Meaning | |
| Freud, Sigmund | Mourning and Melancholia | |
| Fumia, Molly | Safe Passage: Words to Help the Grieving Hold Fast and Let Go | |
| Galinsky, Nadine | When a Grandchild Dies: What to Do, What to Say, How to Hope | |
| Ginsberg, Genevieve | To Live Again | 1987 |
| Greenman, Jim | What Happened to the World? | 2000 |
| Greenspan, Miriam | Healing Through The Dark Emotions | |
| Grollman, Earl A. | Living When a Loved One Has Died Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between parent and Child Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers | Beacon Press, 1977 1991 1993 |
| Hanh, Tich Nhat | No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life Peace in Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living | 2002 1991 1992 |
| Hedtke, Lorraine | Re-Membering Lives | |
| Heegard, Marge E. | Grief: A Natural Reaction to Loss | 2002 |
| Hickman, Martha Whitmore | Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief. | New York: Perennial Press, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. |
| Jewett-Jarret, Claudia | Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss | 1994 |
| James, J. and Cherry, Frank | The Grief Recovery Handbook | Harper and Row, 1988 |
| Jevine, R.F. | Finding Hope: Ways to See Life in a Brighter Light | 1999 |
| Jones, Roger | Dealing with Death, Funerals, Wills and Bereavement: A Practical Guide | |
| Kolf, June Cerza | Grandma’s Tears: Comfort for the Grieving Grandparent | |
| Kushner, Harold | When Bad Things Happen to Good People | New York: Schocken Books, 1980 |
| Lotz, Ann Graham | Why | |
| Manning, Doug | Don’t Take My Grief Away | 1979 |
| McNunn, Marty | A Group I Never Wanted… | 2006 |
| Mehren, Elizabeth | After the Darkest Hour, The Sun Will Shine Again | |
| Miller, James E. | How Will I Get Through the Holidays? | |
| Monahon, Cynthia | Children and Trauma | 1993 |
| Mucha, Constance | Gently Grieving: Taking Care of Yourself By Telling Your Story | 2006 |
| Neeld, Elizabeth Harper | Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love | 1990 |
| Noel, B. and Blair, P.D. | I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping, and Healing after the Sudden Death of a Loved One | 2000 |
| Nussbaum, Cathy | Preparing the Children | 1998 |
| Parks, Colin Murray | Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life | 1972 |
| Pausch, Randy | The Last Lecture | |
| Peck, M. Scott | The Road Less Traveled | |
| Prend, Ashley David | Transcending Loss | |
| Price, Eugenia | Getting Through the Night | |
| Rando, Therese | Grieving: How to Go On Living When someone You Love Dies | Lexington, MA |
| Reed, Mary Lou | Grandparents’ Cry Twice: Help for bereaved Grandparents | |
| Remen, Ruth Naomi | Kitchen Table Wisdom My Grandfather’s Blessings | 1996 2000 |
| Rosof, Barbara D. | The Worst Loss: How Families Heal from the Death of a Child | |
| Ross, Elizabeth Kubler | On Death and Dying Questions and Answers on Death and Dying | 1969 1974 |
| Schneider, J.M. | Clinically significant differences between grief, pathological grief and depression, patient counseling and health education | 1980 |
| Simos, Bertha | A Time to Grieve | 1979 |
| Sittser, Gerald L. | A Grace Disguised | |
| Smart, Jamie | Effortless Evolution | |
| Smith, Harold Ivan | A Decembered Grief: Living with Loss when others are celebrating | Beacon hill, 1999 |
| Staudacher, Carol | A Time to Grieve: Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One | |
| Steele, William | After a Traumatic Loss | 2003 |
| Tatelbaum, Judy | The Courage to Grieve | 1980 |
| Viorst, Judith | Necessary Losses | 1987 |
| Westberg, Granger E. | Good Grief | 1997 |
| Wolfelt, Alan | The Journey Through Grief: Reflections on Healing Understanding your Grief A Child’s view of Grief Healing the Bereaved Child Healing Your Grieving Heart | 1992 1991 1996 |
| Wray, T.J. | Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies. | New York: Three Rivers Press |
| Zeitlin, S. and Harlow, I. | Giving a Voice to Sorrow: Personal Responses to Death and Mourning | 2001 |
| Zotovich, Katherine Dorn | My Memory Maker Set | |
Grief and Spirituality
| Alexander, Eben | Proof of Heaven | 2013 |
| Brener, Anne | Mourning and Mitzvah: A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner’s Path Through Grief to Healing | 2001 |
| Burpo, Todd | Heaven is For Real | 2013 |
| D’Arcy, Paula. | Gift of the Red Bird: The Story of a Divine Encounter. | New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1996. |
| Diamant, A. | Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead and Mourn as a Jew | Schocken Books, 1998 |
| Guggenheim | Hello Heaven | |
| Lamm, M. | The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning | Jonathan David Publishers, 1969 |
| Leckey, Dolores R. | Grieving With Grace: A Woman’s Perspective | 2008 |
| Moore, Thomas | Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life | 1992 |
| Pardoe, Jennifer | How Many Times Can You Say Goodbye? | 1991 |
| Rinpoche, Sogyal | The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying | |
| Rupp, Joyce | Praying Our Goodbyes | 1988 |
| Stein, Garth | The Joy of Racing in the Rain | 2008 |
| Yancey, P. | Where is God When It Hurts? | Zondervan Publishing, 2001 |
| Zerah, A. | As You Grieve: Consoling Words From Around the World | Sorin Books, 2001 |
Loss of a Child
| Anderson, George | Walking in the Garden of Souls | |
| Bernstein, Judith | When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter | 1992 |
| Blank-Webster, Jeanne | The Death of an Adult Child: A Book for and About Bereaved Parents | |
| Brady, Kimberli Weed | Give Them Wings and Let Them Fly: Surviving the Loss of a Child | |
| Cosman, Mark | In the Wake of Death: Surviving the Loss of a Child | |
| Crider, Tom | Give Sorrow Words | |
| Davis, Deborah L. | Empty Cradle, Broken Heart | |
| DeYamz, Linda | Mommy, Please Don’t Cry: Tender Words for Broken Hearts | |
| Donnelly, Katherine F. | Recovering from the Loss of a Child | |
| Evans, Susan C. | Later, Courtney: A Mother Says Goodbye | |
| Finkbeiner, Ann | After the Death of a Child: Living With Loss Through the Years | |
| Goodman, Sandy | Love Never Dies: A Mother’s Journey From Loss to Love | |
| Heavilin, Marilyn W. | Roses in December December’s Song | |
| Hurcombe, Linda | Losing a Child: Explorations in Grief | |
| Huntley, Theresa | When Your Child Dies | |
| Mitchell, Ellen | Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child | |
| McCracken, Anne | A Broken Heart Still Beats After Your Child Dies | |
| Munday, John S. | Surviving the Death of a Child | |
| Newton, Michael | The Shack The Destiny of Souls | |
| Redfern, Suzanne and Gilbert, Susan | The Grieving Garden | |
| Schiff, Harriet | The Bereaved Parent | |
| White, Juanita | Never Too Old for a Lullaby: How to Survive the Death of an Adult Child | |
| Wolterstorff, Nicholas | Lament for a Son | |
Loss of a Parent
| Akner, Lois F. | How to Survive the Loss of a Parent: A Guide for Adults | New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993. |
| Commins, Patricia. | Remembering Mother, Finding Myself: A Journey of Love and Self-Acceptance. | South Beach, Florida: Health Communications, Inc. 1999. |
| Levy, Alexander. | The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents. | DeCapo Press, 2000. |
| Schwable, Will | The End of Your Life Book Club | |
Loss of a Spouse or Partner
| Barfield, Dana. | My Friend Just Lost Her Husband. | TBG Publishing, LLC, 2010. |
| Campbell, Scott | Widower: When Men are Left Alone | 1996 |
| Curry, Cathleen | When Your Spouse Died: A Concise and Practical Source of Help and Advice | 1990 |
| Golden, Thomas R. | Swallowed by the Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing | |
| Floyd, Gregory | Grief Unveiled: One Father’s Journey Through the Loss of a Child | |
| James, John and Friedman, Russell | The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce… | |
| Levang, Elizabeth | When Men Grieve: How Men Grieve Differently and How you Can Help | |
| Lewis, C. S. | A Grief Observed. | Harper One. 2001. |
| Shantz, Jenelle | Seasons of Solace: A Story of Healing Through Photos and Poems | |
Complicated Grief
| Beattie, Melodie | The Grief Club: Getting Through All Kinds of Change | |
| Boss, Pauline | Ambiguous Loss | |
| Elison, J. and McGonigle, C. | Liberating Losses: When Death Brings Relief | |
| Kosminsky, Phyllis | Getting Back to Life When Grief Won’t Heal | |
| Lamott, Annie | Hard Laughter | |
| Nakken, Craig | The Addictive Personality | |
| Whitfield, Charles | Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families | |
Websites
| centerforloss.com | Founded in 1983 by Dr. Alan Wolfelt, the Center for Loss and Life Transition is dedicated to “companioning” grieving people as they mourn significant transitions and losses that transform their lives. They help mourners, by walking with them in their unique life journeys, and both professional and lay caregivers, by serving as an educational resource and professional forum. |
| centering.org | Centering Corporation has hundreds of grief resources for infant loss, bereaved parents, suicide, homicide, loss of a spouse, children and grief, pet loss, general grief resources and more. |
| compassionbooks.com | Compassionbooks is a source for more than 400 books, videos, and audios to help children and adults through serious illness, death and dying, grief, bereavement, and losses of all kinds, including suicide, trauma, sudden loss, and violence. |
| dougy.org | The Dougy Center provides support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families grieving a death can share their experiences. Through their Pathways Program they provide a safe place for families facing an advanced serious illness. |
| drkendoka.com | Dr. Kenneth J. Doka is a Professor of Gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle and Senior Consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America. He is one of the authors of the text, Dying & Death: Life & Living. A prolific author, Dr. Doka’s books include When Grief Is Complicated, Grief Is a Journey: Finding your Pathway through Loss, Managing Conflict, Finding Meaning, The Longest Loss: Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia, and many other useful books. |
| dyingwell.org | Dr. Ira Byock is a leading palliative care physician, author, and public advocate for improving care through the end of life. He is Founder and Chief Medical Officer for the Institute for Human Caring of Providence St. Joseph Health, a 50 hospital health system serving communities across 7 states. |
| griefnet.org | GriefNet.org is an Internet community of persons dealing with grief, death, and major loss, with over 50 e-mail grief support groups and two web sites. Their integrated approach to on-line grief support provides help to people working through loss and grief issues of many kinds. |
| griefshare.org | GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. You don’t have to go through the grieving process alone. |
| healingthespirit.org | Dr. Leary is a psychologist and certified grief therapisst who consults with LifeNet Health. Her responses reflect her professional opinion to general questions. Individuals struggling with complicated grief are encouraged to seek the care of a professional. |
| heartbeatsurvivorsaftersuicide.org | Heartbeat offers empathy, comfort, relief from isolation, and to role model healthy adjustment to the loss in a safe, judgment-free environment to anyone touched by suicide. Their purpose is to resolve the grief for the cause of the death in order to achieve healthy reconciliation with the loss, to restore hope, joy and wholeness within the lives of suicide bereaved. |
| hospice.net | (Site unavailable as of April 25, recheck in a week) |
| rainbows.org | Rainbows for All Children (Rainbows) is dedicated to being the premier source of support for all youth as they navigate grief and heal from loss, whether from death, divorce, deployment, or other trauma. Rainbows fosters awareness that youth require support to heal. They nurture a community of effective Rainbows-trained Facilitators, supported with a repository of resources designed to guide youth in their grieving process. |
| suicide.org | Suicide.org is 501c3 nonprofit organization which was conceived and founded by Kevin Caruso in 2004. We currently assist more than 3,000,000 people throughout the world each year. Their mission is to prevent suicides, support suicide survivors, and educate the public about suicide. |