Resources

Use the filters below to find resources of all types to help you support the bereaved. If you know of something we can include please get in touch. We have selected here resources which we believe will be most helpful for churches. Please see AtaLoss.org for a wider range.

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Circumstance of Death

Religious Content

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The Art of Dying Well

The Art of Dying Well offers practical and spiritual support to those faced with the prospect of death and dying. Also useful for those supporting the bereaved.

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A poem for Mother’s Day

by Naomi Black

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Alternative Pastoral Prayers: Liturgies and Blessings for Health and Healing, Beginnings and Endings

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William Worden, Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy (Routledge, 2003)

Grieving over death is an innate, vital process that most people are able to experience and emerge from in a healthy manner.

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Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, On Death and Dying (Simon & Schuster, reprint 1997)

Ours is a death-denying society. But death is inevitable, and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Coming to terms with our own finiteness helps us discover life’s true meaning.

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Colin Murray Parkes, Bereavement – Studies in Grief in Adult Life (Penguin, 1998)

Colin Murray Parkes draws on his own research to develop some new theories around bereavement and its effects

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Judy Tatelbaum, The Courage to Grieve (William Heinemann Ltd; New edition 1993)

The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

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Bill Merrington, 101 Ways to Cope with Grief and Loss (Kevin Mayhew Ltd 2007)

This book provides guidance and aid to the bereaved on their journey through grief and loss

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Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition

Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

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William Worden, Children and Grief (Guilford Press, 2002)

Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a richly textured portrait of the mourning process in children.

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