Useful Articles

HOW AM I DOING?

 

            Coping Strategies

            Depression

            Elements of Healing

            Five Stages of Loss

            Grief Symptoms

            Helping Yourself through Grief

            Practical Suggestions for Completing Grief Work

            Suggestions for Coping with Depression

            Support Groups

            You Know You Are Getting Better When…

            After the First Year Then What

 

GRIEF

 

            Choosing to Confront Grief  

            Clues of Complicated Grief

            Common Reactions to Grief

            Complicated Grief

            Coping as a family

            Grief

            Grief and Guilt

            Grief Changes us Forever

            Normal Grief Responses

            Seven Lessons of Loss

            Suggestions for Handling Guilt

            Symplomolology of Grief and Bereavement

            When the Clock Strikes Midnight:  The Art of Letting Go

            A Grief Observed

            Living with the Empty Chair

            Things To Tell Non-Grievers

            What Do We Need During Grief?

 

CHILDREN IN GRIEF

 

            Children and Grief  

            Helping Grieving Children Handle the Holidays

            JUST FOR KIDS:  Returning to School after a Loss

            Some Guidelines for Parents to Help a Child through Grief

            Teenagers and Grief

            What Does “Dead” mean?  Explaining the Language of Death to Children

            Do’s And Don’ts With Grieving Children

            Helping Children with Death

 

COPING WITH ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS

 

            A Holiday Message

            Coping with Grief during the Holidays

            Coping with the Holidays after a Loss
            The Anniversary Dilemma

 

DEATH OF A PARENT

 

            Adult Children and the Loss of a Parent

            Adult Loss of a Parent

            Generations severed:  When a Parent Dies

            When Parents Die: Unfinished Business

            Women Grieve Mother’s Death

 

GRANDPARENTS GRIEF

           

             Grieving Grandparents

 

MEN IN GRIEF

 

            A Father’s Grief

            Men and Grief

            Men’s Grief

            Suffering Silence

 

PARENTS IN GRIEF

            Loss of an Adult-Child           

            Understanding Grief after the Death of a Child

            A Hole in the Screen

 

PET LOSS

 

            Explaining Pet Loss to Your Child

            Grieving a Pet           

            Of Course you can Cry

            Pet Loss and Human Emotions

            Ten Tips on Coping with Pet Loss?

 

SUDDEN OR VIOLENT DEATH

 

            Additional Problems of Survivors of a Homicide

            Mourning a Sudden Death

            On Dealing with a violent Death

            Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

                        Following Murders and Drunk Driving Crashes

                        Following Murders, Drunk Driving Crashes, Suicides, War

 

SUICIDE GRIEF

 

          Beyond Surviving: Suggestions for Survivors
          Grief After Suicide
          How Can I Help? Responses to Survivors of Suicide
          Survivors of Suicide
          The Aftermath of Suicide
          Aftermath, When a Spouse Dies by Suicide

          When A Sibling Dies

 

WIDOW/WIDOWER IN GRIEF

 

           Facing Life Alone Again
           Facing The Future
           Going On Alone
            Spousal Loss
            The Mourning After

            Widowed At Forty

            Widowhood
 

WORKPLACE GRIEF

 

            Grief in the Workplace

            Returning to the Workplace

            Working with Grief

 

POEMS

 

            Do not stand at my grave and weep  

            Falling Apart

            My Father’s Hands

            The Elephant in the Room

            To Those I Love and Those Who Love Me

            Just a Matter of Time