RESOURCE LIST

Books

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Helping Children Cope:​

• Death and the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Assist Grieving Students - Cassini & Rogers

• Helping Children Understand Death - Crase & Crase

• Helping the Grieving Student: A Guide for Teachers - The Dougy Center

• The Grieving Child; A Parent's Guide - Fitzgerald

• Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child - Grollman

• A Teenager's Book About Suicide - Grollman and Johnson

• The Caring Circle: Facilitator's Guide to Support Groups - Hipp

• On Children and Death - Kubler-Ross

• Growing Through Grief: A K-12 Curriculum to Help Young People Through all Kinds of Loss - O'Toole

• How Do We Tell The Children, A Parents Guide To Helping Children Understand And Cope - Schaefer & Lyons

• What Will We Do? Preparing a School Community to Cope with a Crisis – Stevenson

• Water Bugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children - Stickney

• Helping Children Cope With Grief - Wolfelt

• Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart – Wolfelt

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Books for Children:

• Nadia the Willful - Alexander

• If Nathan Were Here - Bahr

• The Class In Room Forty-Four: When A Classmate Dies - Blackburn

• Timothy Duck: The Story of A Death Of A Friend - Blackburn

• I Know I Made it Happen: Children & Guilt - Blackburn

• What is Death? - Boritzer

• Something to Remember Me By -Bosak

• Saying Goodbye: Bereavement Activity Book - Boulden

• Grandpa - Burningham

• The Fall of Freddie the Leaf - Buscaglia

• Dusty Was My Friend - Clardy

• I Had a Friend Named Peter - Cohn

• Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs - DePaola

• Thumpy's Story; A Story of Love and Grief Shared - Dodge

• My Grandpa Died Today - Fassler

• Where's Jess? - Goldstein

• A New Mother for Martha - Green

• No New Baby - Gryte

• The Next Place - Hanson

• Why Did Grandpa Die? - Hazen

• When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief - Heegaard

• When Something Terrible Happens - Heegaard

• A Taste of Blackberries - Smith

• I Miss You - Thomas

• A Quilt for Elizabeth - Tiffault

• The Tenth Good Thing About Barney - Viorst

• The Velveteen Rabbit - Williams

• Sarah's Journey - Wolfelt

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For Teenagers:

• Fox in the Winter - Branfield

• The Grieving Teen - Fitzgerald

• When A Friend Dies - Goolman

• Teenagers Face to Face with Bereavement – Gravelle & Haskins

• A.Straight Talk About Death For Teenagers - Grollman

• Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide – Or Even Starts Taking About It – Grollman

• Help for the Hard Times: Getting Through Grief and Loss – Hipp

• How It Feels When a Parent Dies - Krementz, J. and Knopf, A.

• Janet and Me – Mack

• Donna. Facing Change – O’Toole

• The Bridge to Terabithia – Paterson

• When Death Walks In - Scrivani

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For Adults, General:​

• Grief's Courageous Journey: A Workbook - Caplan & Lang

• Life after Loss: A Practical Guide - Deits

• Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul - Canfield & Hanson

• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life - Kabat-Zinn

• Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart - Levine

• Surviving Grief and Learning to Live Again - Saunders

• The Mourning Handbook - Fitzgerald

• Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas - Wolfelt

• Life Lessons - Kubler-Ross & Kessler

• How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies - Rand

• Companion Through the Darkness: Inner Dialogues on Grief - Ericsson

• A Time to Grieve: Meditations for Healing - Staudacher

• Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss - Kumar

• Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working through Grief - Hickman

• A Journey Through Grief: Gentle, Specific Help - Bozarth

• The Grief Recovery Handbook - James & Friedman

• Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief - Boss

• The Precious Present - Johnson

• Writing to Heal the Soul: Transforming Grief and Loss Through Writing - Zimmerman

• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Rinpoche

• I'm Grieving As Fast As I Can – Sones-Feinberg

• Good Grief: Healing Through the Shadow of Loss - Morris-Coryell

• A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss - Sittser

• Finding Your Way through Grief: A Guide for the First Year - Tousley

• Love Never Ends - Martin & Dundas

• Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear and Despair - Greenspan

• Loving from the Outside In, Mourning from the Inside Out - Wolfelt

• Stunned by Grief: Remapping Your Life When Loss Changes Everything - Brizendine

• Hope and Healing for Transcending Loss: Daily Meditations for Those Who Are Grieving - Davis-Bush

• Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive - Gilbert

• Grief Is A Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss - Doka

• Grief One Day At A Time: 365 Meditations to Help You Heal After Loss - Wolfelt

• Sibling Grief: Healing after the Death of a Sister or Brother - White

• Never Long Enough - Krakoff & Sider

• A Grief Observed - Lewis

• Bearing The Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief - Cacciator

• It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand - Devine

• One Mindful Day at a Time: 365 Daily Meditations for Living in the Now - Wolfelt

• Mindfulness & Grief - Stang

For Adults, Grieving A Spouse:

• Surviving the Death of Your Spouse: A Step-by-Step Workbook – Levinson

• When your Spouse Dies - Curry

• Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner - Shernoff

• The Healing Power of Love: Transcending the Loss of a Spouse to a New Love - Lintermans & Stoltzman

• Lost and Found: How We Survived the Loss of a Young Spouse – Young & Young

• Widow to Widow - Davis-Ginsburg

• A Widow's Story: A Memoir - Oates

• Happily Even After: A Guide to Getting Through (and Beyond) The Grief of Widowhood – Brody-Fleet

• Gaining Traction - Starting Over After the Death of Your Life Partner - Panagotacos

• The Tender Scar: Life After the Death of a Spouse - Mabry

• A Gift of Love: A Widow's Memoir – Della-Donna

• Healing A Spouse’s Grieving Heart - Wolfelt

For Adults, Grieving A Parent:

• Grieving the Death of a Mother – Smith

• When Parents Die - Abrams

• Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss - Edelman

• Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies - Wolfelt

For Adults, Grieving A Child:

• Facing the Ultimate Loss: Confronting the Death of a Child - Marx & Wengerhoff-Davidson

• The Ultimate Loss: Coping with the Death of a Child - Bordow

• Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love – Logelin

• Healing a Parent’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies - Wolfelt

For Adults, Traumatic or Sudden Death:

• No Time For Goodbyes: Coping with Sorrow, Anger, and Injustice After a Tragic Death - Harris-Lord

• I Wasn't Ready To Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing after the Sudden Death of a Loved One - Noel & Blair

• Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide – Redfield-Jamieson

• The Gift of Second: Healing from the Impact of Suicide - Lidbeck

• A to Z Healing Toolbox: A Practical Guide for Navigating Grief and Trauma with Intention - Hannifin-MacNab

Online Resources:

https://www.frederickhealthhospice.org : information of grief support services in Frederick, MD, Camp Jamie, and larger list of books for talking with children and teens about death

https://www.dougy.org : Dougy Center: The National Center for Grieving Children and Families

https://whatsyourgrief.com/: supportive articles, activities

https://childrengrieve.org : National Alliance for Grieving Children

https://www.hellogrief.com : Blog for kids

https://www.achildingrief.org : Full-color books

• A part of me- an interactive App related to loss & grief that provides young people with a safe space to grieve, where they can hear from others who know how it feels.

• GriefSteps-  a free app for parents, easily accessible mobile and web-based resource with useful information and activities for bereaved families.