READING RESOURCES
BOOKS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
-
Understanding Grief, Helping Yourself Heal, Alan Wolfelt
- Living When A Loved One Has Died, Earl Grollman*
- Concerning Death: A Practical Guide for the Living, Earl Grollman
- Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child, Earl Grollman*
- When Children Hurt, Earl Grollman
- What Helped Me When My Loved One Died, Earl Grollman*
- Death: The Final Stage of Growth, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross*
- Living with Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross*
- On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross*
- Don't Take My Grief Away, Doug Manning
- Listen to the Heart, Geeri Howe
- Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring, Henri Nouwen
- Living Through Mourning: Finding Comfort and Hope When a Loved One
Had Died, Harriett Schiff*
- How to Survive the Loss of a Love, Melba H. Colgrove*
- The Mourning After: How to Manage Grief Wisely, Stanley P. Cornils
- Understanding Mourning: A Guide for Those Who Grieve, Religion and
Medicine Series of Augsburg Publishing House
* Indicates that Blount County Library has this book
Additional Reading Sources can be found on the back of this page.
ADDITIONAL READING SOURCES
- Recovering From the Loss of a Loved One, Kathleen Fair
- Explaining Death to Children, edited by Earl A. Grollman. With an introd. by
Louise Bates Ames*
- Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers: How to Cope With Losing Someone
You Love, Earl A. Grollman*
- Bereaved Children and Teens: A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals,
Earl A. Grollman*
- On Children and Death, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross*
- The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross*
This is just a small sampling, the Blount County Library has:
- 83 items listed under GRIEF,
- 81 items listed under BEREAVEMENT, and
- 84 items listed under DEATH-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
SUPPORT GROUPS
Support groups offer the sense that a survivor is not alone. Many people say they gain comfort from sharing their feelings with others who had similar experiences. These groups provide a confidential, safe and caring environment to release emotional tension.
SPOUSE SUPPORT
Widowed Persons Service ----- (202) 434-2260
Society of Military Widows ----- (703) 750-1342, ext. 3007
GENERAL
Hospice Foundation of America ----- (800) 854-3402
Emotions Anonymous ----- (612) 647-9712
Theos (They Help Each Other Spiritually) Foundation
(412) 471-7779
CHILD/SIBLING LOSS
Rainbows ----- (800) 266-3206
PREGNANCY AND INFANT LOSS
National SID (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Foundation
(800) 221-7437
National Center for the Prevention of SIDS -----(800) 638-SIDS
Center for Loss in Multiple Birth (CLIMB) ----- (907) 746-6123
HOMICIDE
Parents of Murdered Children ----- (513) 721-5683
WEB SITES FOR SUPPORT
The internet is a terrific reference resource with a variety of grief and support sites. Some offer support and advice, other pages provide an opportunity to anonymously memorialize loved ones and some sites are open discussions.
Here is just a sampling of what's available:
Batesville Casket Company's grief section
http://www.batesville.com
National Funeral Director's Association
http://www.nfda.org
Dr. Alan Wolfelt and his Center for Loss and Life Transition
http://www.centerforloss.com
National Select Morticians
http://www.nsm.org/grieve.html
National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/programs/death
International Order of the Golden Rule
http://www.ogr.org
Yahoo's grief-related index
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/death
Webster's Death, Dying and Grief Guide
http://www.katsden.com/death/index.html
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