Bereavement
What's Happened to Baby? by
skylight, Sids Wgtn & Sands Wgtn
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16
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What’s Happened to Baby? is an inviting, sensitively written and colourfully illustrated picture book for children 3 – 7 years old, who have had a baby die in their family/whānau. It has been designed with the whole family/whānau in mind, and provides a helpful opportunity for parents and caregivers to talk with a young child about this difficult loss. It also features useful notes and information for adults at the back, to assist them in supporting their bereaved child.
The text has been carefully designed to fit a wide range of bereavement situations, including miscarriage, stillbirth, cot death, and accidental or natural deaths of an infant or toddler. In this way it has been developed as a book that will be able to serve and support a large number of bereaved New Zealand families.
The story is simple, giving young readers clear understanding and reassuring, comforting concepts to carry with them. It also offers plenty of opportunities for adults to talk with their child/children about their own beliefs and any personal thoughts they would like to share. The illustrations, by Ali Teo, and the text combine to very effectively reflect the multi cultural nature of the New Zealand community today.
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A Memory Book: Someone I Love Has Died by
Tricia Irving and Bev Gatenby, NZ
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24.00
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A unique, hardcover book that provides a sensitive and flexible framework for children, young people and their families to record memories about someone special to them who has died. With plenty of space to personalise pages, there are great suggestions throughout to help celebrate the person’s life. Guidelines for adults are included. This is a special resource, designed as a keepsake to treasure.
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35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child by
The Dougy Centre, USA
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19.50
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A very useful guidebook for adults wanting to effectively support a child or teen bereaved by the death of someone they know. It presents 35 practical suggestions, in an easy-to-read format, to help adults ease that young person’s journey through grief.
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Answering a Child's Questions about Death and Dying by
Skylight, NZ
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This pamphlet helps adults to answer many of the questions about death and dying that children commonly ask. Easy to read and understand. Suitable for agencies and organisations. Bulk purchasing available.
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What About the Kids? Understanding Their Needs in Funerals by
The Dougy Centre, USA
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ONLY WHILE STOCKS LAST! A handbook for parents and others to help them better understand the needs of children and teens in funeral planning and services, such as memorial services or events. Practical, with lots of ideas and suggestions.
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After Your Child Has Died by
Tricia Irving & Andrew Thompson - skylight, NZ
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10.00
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A simply written booklet for newly bereaved parents who are facing the death of their child and life in the coming days, weeks and months that will follow. Helpful information and quotes from New Zealand parents who have 'been there' are included.
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When A Friend Dies: A Book for Teens about Grieving & Healing by
Marilyn Gootman and Pamela Espeland, USA
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21.00
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Sixteen brief chapters provide helpful, supportive information on grief, and address questions like How can I stand the pain? How should I be acting? What is normal'? What if I can't handle my grief? There are teen quotes used throughout the book. It also addresses loss of a friend through violence and murder. Easy to read. NOTE: Temporarily Out of Stock. Orders welcome but delays or 6 - 8 weeks expected due to international delays out of our control.
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Lifetimes by
Mellonie and Ingpen, USA
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A beautifully illustrated picture book which has proven a powerful tool for explaining the nature of death to children in a gentle, informative and non-threatening way. It also addresses illness and injury as part of life. A classic for all ages, but especially for children 4–12 yrs.
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Hello Gran: A CD Story to Listen To by
Hope Hucklesby, NZ
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8.50
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ONLY WHILE STOCKS LAST! A wonderful ten-minute audio CD, produced by National Radio, telling the story of a boy whose grandmother has recently died. It encourages listeners (4–10 yrs) to keep remembering someone special after they have died, and to remember that they can still have a very real link with them—always.
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Haere—Farewell, Jack, Farewell by
Tim Tipene and Huhana Smith, NZ
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A family death is mourned, but a birth is also celebrated, and a little girl comes to better understand the circle of life. Wonderful NZ illustrations, including of the tangi, and also available in Māori.
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Haere by
Tim Tipene and Huhana Smith, NZ
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Written in Māori, in this story a family death is mourned, a birth is also celebrated, and a little girl comes to better understand the circle of life. Wonderful, full-colour New Zealand illustrations, including of the tangi. Also available in English.
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When Your Mum or Dad Dies by
skylight, NZ
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A helpful information leaflet especially designed for young people (10 - 16) when their Mum or Dad has died.
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Making a Memory Book by
skylight, NZ
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A helpful information leaflet especially designed for young people (10 - 16) full of ideas and suggestions about making a book of memories about someone special.
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When Your Brother or Sister Dies by
skylight,NZ
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A helpful support information leaflet especially designed for young people (10 - 16) when their sister or brother has died.
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When A Friend Dies by
skylight, NZ
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A helpful support information leaflet especially designed for young people (10 - 16) when a friend has died.
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When Your Pet Dies by
skylight, NZ
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A helpful information leaflet especially designed for young people (10 - 16) when a special pet has died.
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Making a Pet Memory Book by
skylight, NZ
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A helpful information leaflet especially designed to assist young people and families when their pet has died, to help them to make their own pet memory book as a way to celebrate memories and to help them adjust to what's happened.
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The Loss of a Special Pet - for adults by
skylight, NZ
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A helpful information leaflet especially designed for adults when their pet has died.
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Ideas for Pet Funerals by
skylight, NZ
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A helpful information leaflet especially designed for adults when their family pet has died and they are looking for ways to support their children through pet loss.
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Samantha Jane's Missing Smile: A Story About Coping with the Loss of a Parent by
Julie Kaplow and Donna Pincus, USA
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Samantha Jane hasn't been smiling much lately. She lost her smile about a month ago. That was when her dad died.
Samantha Jane misses her father very much. Sometimes the sadness feels so big she is afraid to let herself feel it. Sammy Jane is also worried about her mother, and whether they are all going to be happy again someday. But then she feels guilty. Is it right to feel happy when her father can't be here to enjoy life, too?
This picture book gently guides families through the feelings, thoughts and wishes that children experience when a parent dies, and offers helpful tools for lasting hope and happiness. For ages 4–8 years.
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Healing a Parent's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies by
Alan Wolfelt, USA
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Presenting simple yet highly effective methods for coping and healing, this book provides answers and relief to parents trying to deal with the loss of a child. It offers 100 practical, action-oriented tips for embracing grief, and discusses common problems for grieving parents such as dealing with marital stress, helping surviving siblings, dealing with hurtful advice and exploring feelings of guilt. This compassionate resource will aid parents who have been through the death of a child, whether the passing was recent or many years ago, and whether the child was young or an adult.
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Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart by
Alan Wolfelt, USA
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One of North America's most respected grief educators, Dr Alan Wolfelt has written many books about grief. This new book is his most comprehensive, covering the most important lessons that mourners have taught him in his two decades of working with the bereaved.
In compassionate, everyday language (no pscyho-babble here), this book explains the important difference between grief and mourning and explores the mourner's need to acknowledge the death and embrace the pain of the loss. It also explores the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the myriad of normal thoughts and feelings the mourner might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed. Dr Wolfelt also offers suggestions for good self-care. Throughout, he affirms the readers' rights to be compassionate with themselves, lean on others for help, and trust in their innate ability to heal. Journalling sections encourage readers to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings.
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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas by
Alan Wolfelt, USA
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In this recently published book for grieving teenagers, Dr Alan Wolfelt speaks honestly and in a straightforward style to teenagers. He affirms their thoughts and feelings, and gives them dozens of youth-friendly ideas for understanding and coping with their grief.
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Healing Grief at Work: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Workplace is Touched by Loss by
Alan Wolfelt, USA
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For most adults, work comprises fully half of our waking hours and is an integral and significant part of our social and emotional lives. Yet when death and other types of loss (such as divorce or layoffs) touch the workplace, the resulting grief is too often unacknowledged and unsupported. How should we respond when a colleague dies? What can we do when a co-worker’s family member dies? What if a tragedy impacts multiple people in the workplace? And if we’re grieving, what can we do with our grief 8 to 5, Monday through Friday?
This book seeks to answer these questions and more in a practical, compassionate style. Topics covered include effective ways to channel grief during the workday, supporting co-workers who mourn and coping with traumatic deaths that affect the workplace. A special introduction for employers (managers, human resource personnel and owners) addresses the economic impact of grief in the workplace and provides practical and cost-effective ideas for maintaining morale and creating a productive yet compassionate work environment.
This book makes an excellent resource for employee in-service training, as well as general distribution in a time of need.
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Helping People with Developmental Disabilities Mourn: Practical Rituals for Caregivers by
Marc Markell, USA
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When people with developmental disabilities experience the death of a significant person in their lives, they are often forgotten and disenfranchised mourners. Yet they have special needs for rituals that will help them acknowledge the reality of the death, embrace the pain of the loss and achieve a new balance in their lives. This book explains how to create rituals for people with developmental disabilities, including the use of pictures, memory objects, drawing, music and writing, as well as storytelling. An invaluable resource that can be referred to over and over again.
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Companioning the Bereaved: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers by
Alan Wolfelt, USA
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This book presents a model for grief counselling based on Alan Wolfelt’s respected ‘companioning’ principles. For many mental healthcare providers, grief in contemporary society has been medicalised and perceived as if it were an illness that, with proper assessment, diagnosis and treatment, could be cured. Dr Wolfelt explains that our modern understanding of grief all too often emphasises ‘recovery’ or ‘resolution’ in grief, suggesting a return to ‘normalcy’ or a ‘cure’.
By contrast, this book advocates a model of ‘companioning’ the bereaved, acknowledging that grief forever changes or transforms the mourner's world view. Companioning is not about assessing, analysing, fixing or resolving another's grief. Instead, it is about being totally present to the mourner, even being a temporary guardian of his soul. The companioning model is grounded in a ‘teach me’ perspective.
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