Bereavement category: 2356 books

What are the challenges facing gerontological social workers—today and in the near future? This book gives you an essential overview of the role, status, and potential of gerontological social work in aging societies around the world. Drawing on the expertise of leaders in the field, it identifies...

This book is a meditation on facing fear, heartbreak, and mortality. In his own irreverent and inimitable style, Daniele Bolelli tells the story of his courtship and marriage, which would have been a sweet story had not all hell broken loose. Or as he puts it, “Hell was a ninja who entered my house...

When her beloved soul friend husband, Gerald, passed away a few years ago, and her friends and sons moved to distant cities, she found herself alone for the first time in her life. Gerald, a professional artist, had his studio in their home. Their home was always filled with family life, art, music,...

A mother’s honest and heartfelt journey of healing and hope, as she experiences anew God’s grace, goodness, and faithfulness after the death of her infant daughter, will bring encouragement for anyone going through grief and loss.

La Paula té quaranta anys, és neonatòloga i està viva. Quan una revelació i una pèrdua sobtada la porten a submergir-se en ella mateixa, emprèn un camí que l'endinsarà en la ràbia, la por, el desig i la reconstrucció personal, i que li despertarà l'instint de supervivència. Desorientada,...

You can smile again inspite of your streams of tears. Your grieving can give way to songs of rejoicing. This is the central message of this book. The author provides his readers with keys and principles needed to transform your sad moments to happy seasons. These are tested precepts that will turn...

In this first collection English poet Mary Pargeter re-visits her childhood, loss of innocence, states of love, heartbreak and death, and reflects, with admirable frankness, on those universal rites of passage common to us all The first poems present an idyllic childhood running free in the exquisite...

Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn. After a bewildering series of rapid diagnoses and emergency interventions, Charlene's daughter Chloe is born. But her too-brief life is spent in the neonatal intensive care unit, and...

How can you begin rebuilding your life when the sudden loss of someone you love shatters the happiness and contentment you have created together? This is the dilemma author Ruthann Reim McCaffree faced when her husband Terry fell from a ladder and died, suddenly, at the age of 61. One moment they were...

Few people understand the true depths of pregnancy loss. Many treat miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death as minor grief. Kathy Burns has written a personal message to parents who have experienced the death of a child during pregnancy.

This unique book recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's point of view rather than from the perspective of caregivers, survivors, or rescuers. Such unmediated access challenges assumptions about the emotional and spiritual dimensions of dying, showing readers that—along...

When someone commits suicide it effects the people who care about them very deeply and it can be difficult for family and friends to understand what motivated their loved one to take their own life. This new book sets out the facts about suicide in a straightforward way in order to help people who are...

Research has shown that widowed black women have unique circumstances that aren't always addressed in most widow support groups and organizations. Losing a husband is an event no woman wants to face, no matter the culture or race. Grief has no respecter of person however; the end results of a loss...

Launched with a powerful narrative thrust of the suicide of her son in 1978, LaRita Archibald leads the reader from the initial trauma of violent death, through the ragged, brutal and unknown psychological and emotional landscape that must be traversed to find eventual healing and peace. Using lessons...