Recommended Reading & Resources

Additional Grief & Loss Titles

• A Widow’s Guide to Living Alone — Judith Fabisch
• Bereavement Counseling — B. Mark Schoenberg
• Comforting Those Who Grieve — Doug Manning
• The Courage to Grieve — Judy Tatelbaum
• Don’t Take My Grief Away — Doug Manning
• Facing Death & Grief — Prometheus Books
• Good-bye, My Son, Hello — Adolfo Quezada
• Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, a Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner — J. William Worden, Ph.D.
• Grief, Dying and Death — Therese A. Rando
• Grief Work — Juanita Ponce-Montoya
• How It Feels When a Parent Dies — Jill Krementz
• In the Midst of Winter, Selections from the Literature of Mourning — Mary Jane Moffat
• Living When a Loved One Has Died — Earl A. Grollman
• Loss and How to Cope With It — Joanne E. Berstein
• Recovery from Bereavement — C. M. Parkes
• The Stages of Sorrow — Kathleen Smith
• Suddenly Single — Jim Smoke
• The Grief Survival Handbook: A Guide from Heartache to Healing — local Richmond Hill, GA physician D. Keith Cobb, MD
• The Warming of Winter — Maxine Dowd Jensen
• What Happened to You Happened to Me Too — Mary A. Kjosness & Laura A. Rudolph
• When Bad Things Happen to Good People — Harold S. Kushner
• Widow — Lynn Caine
• Widow to Widow — Phyllis R. Silverman, Ph.D.
• The Widower — Jane Burgess Kohn & Willard K. Kohn

Helping Children Understand Loss

Resources for parents, caregivers, teachers, and professionals supporting grieving children and teens.

Recommended Titles

• Explaining Death to Children — Earl A. Grollman
• Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child — Earl A. Grollman
• Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One — William Kroen and Pamela Espeland
• Guiding Your Child Through Grief — Mary Ann and James P. Emswiler
• A Tiny Boat at Sea: How to Help Children Who Have a Parent Diagnosed with Cancer — Izetta Smith
• Can I Still Kiss You? Answering Your Children’s Questions About Your Cancer — Neil Russell
• How to Help Children Through a Loved One’s Serious Illness — Kathleen McQueu and Ron Bon
• Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child When a Parent Is Sick — Paula K. Rauch, M.D. and Anna C. Muriel, M.D.
• When a Parent Has Cancer — Wendy S. Harpham
• After a Parent’s Suicide: Helping Children Heal — Margo Requarth, MFT
• But I Didn’t Say Goodbye: For Parents and Professionals Helping Child Suicide Survivors — Barbara Rubel
• It’s Okay to Cry: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Children Through the Losses of Life — H. Norman Wright
• Part of Me Died Too — Virginia Lynn Fry
• When Children Grieve — John James and Russell Friedman