Bereavement

Useful books:

The Courage to Grieve
Judy Tatelbaum
London: Vermillion, 1997

Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis
London: Faber and Faber, 1966

Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy: a handbook for the mental health practitioner:
J. William Worden
Hove: Routledge, 2003

On Death and Dying, what the dying have to teach doctors, nurses, clergy and their own families.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Abingdon: Routledge, 2009

Finding a Way Through when Someone Close has Died: a work book by young people for young people.
Pat Mood & Lesley Whittaker
London: Jessica Kingsley:2001

Life after Loss : helping the bereaved
Christy Kenneally.
Dublin : Mercier Press, 1999.

Living with Grief
Tony Lake.
London : Sheldon, 1984.

Mortally Wounded : stories of soul pain, death and healing
Michael Kearney.
Dublin : Marino, c1996.


Grieving : a beginner's guide
Jerusha Hull McCormack.
London : Darton Longman + Todd, 2005.

On Grief and Grieving : finding the meaning of grief through the five stages of loss
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler.
London : Simon & Schuster, 2005.


When Parents Die : learning to live with the loss of a parent
Rebecca Abrams.
London : Routledge, 1999.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner.
London : Pan, 2002.

Bereavement : studies of grief in adult life
Colin Murray Parkes.
London : Penguin,1998.

Living with Loss : a guide for the recently widowed
Liz McNeill Taylor.
London : Right Way, 2009.

Visit the library catalogue to see where these titles are held.

Useful websites:

http://www.widowedyoung.ie/
Widowed Young in Ireland
 
http://www.barnardos.ie/
Barnardos: child and family support
      
http://www.isands.ie/
Irish Still Birth and Neonatal Death Society

http://www.bethany.ie/
Bethany Bereavement Support Group
               
http://www.larcc.ie/
LARCC Cancer Support Centre
               
http://www.isida.ie/
Irish Sudden Infant Death Association
               
http://www.miscarriage.ie/
Miscarriage Association of Ireland
               
http://hospicefoundation.ie/
Irish Hospice Foundation

Helplines:

Bethany Pastoral and Bereavement Support, Mullingar: 087 6309808
Bethany St Camillus Bereavement Support, Killucan: 044 9374196
LARCC Bereavement Support Group: 044 9371971 / 1850 719719
Irish Sudden Infant Death Association: 1850 391391               
Hospice Foundatiom: 01 6783188                        
South Westmeath Hospice Group: 087 274861

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