Social Science : Death & Dying

Remembering Well offers family members, clergy, funeral professionals, and hospice workers ways to plan services and rituals that honor the spirit of the deceased and are faithful to that person's values and beliefs, while also respecting the needs and wishes of those who will attend the services. It is an essential resource for anyone who yearns to put death in a spiritual context but is unsure how to do so - including both those who have broken with tradition and those who wish to give new meaning to the time-honored rituals of their faith. more...

Price: $22.95

Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal. more...

Price: $15.95

When a family member or close friend dies, it can be difficult to know how best to help the children and teenagers involved. Someone Very Important Has Just Died is a practical book written for those caring for children and teenagers suffering a close bereavement. Intended for use immediately or soon after the death has occurred, this book gives practical and detailed guidance on what adults might say and do to help children. This much-needed resource tackles the sensitive issues of what to tell children, how far to include them in the events immediately after the death, and how to tend to their physical and emotional needs. The material is suitable for anyone regardless of their background and beliefs, and is supplemented with information on where to go to obtain longer term bereavement support. Someone Very Important Has Just Died is an ideal resource for professionals in all areas of work relating to bereavement. It is designed to be given to adults with children in their care at the time of a death. more...

Price: $9.95

'What is exceptional about this book is that it offers the accounts of children and young people themselves about the loss of parents. This is a book which includes deaths due to natural causes, accidents, suicide and murder. It tells important truths in the clear direct voices of those children and young people themselves, aged from one upwards. It is a brave book, full of complexity that, like the children and young people themselves, doesn't duck the painful and difficult issues it explores. It is a book helpfully to be read by adults and children alike. Yet again it confirms that children know and understand much more than adults tend to give them credit for and all the more for that, need support, understanding and being listening to. …Should be on every social care book shelf. I am grateful that I have come across [it]. '. - Peter Beresford, Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University. Praise for the Swedish Edition:. 'Anyone who loses a sibling or a parent should automatically be given this book. That's how good it is.'. - Länstidningen Södertälje (Swedish daily paper). 'A book that helps make grief easier to bear.'. - Länstidningen Östersund (Swedish daily paper). 'A series of powerful stories has sprung up out of the depths of grief and loss.'. - Helsingborgs dagblad (Swedish daily paper). 'The stories are about their vivid, intimate, day-to-day thoughts, feelings and experiences, about grief, loss and the events connected with a death, and about things one has shared with the person who has died and other memories. This book shows how important it is to be allowed to say farewell to a loved one and to be able to talk about one's loss and people's reactions to it. These children and teenagers tell us how they want and need people around them to react. The book works very well as a form of support and as the starting-point for talking to other young people who have also lo more...

Price: $19.95

Focusing on fictional child and adolescent characters experiencing grief, this book uses classic tales and the Harry Potter books to help grieving children and adolescents. It includes a number of activities, discussion questions, and games that could be used with grieving children and adolescents, based on the fictional characters. more...

Price: $34.95