National
Grief Awareness Week
2nd – 8th
December 2022
Grief can be isolating
and overwhelming, particularly at this time of year. Whilst the majority of people
are looking forward to spending time with their loved ones, there will be many
who will have empty seats at their table this Christmas. Those suffering a
bereavement may feel uncomfortable speaking about their grief and feel pressure
to be “happy” and “festive”.
Whilst for many
the bereavement will be for a friend or family member, for those working in the
NHS and wider health and social care communities it may be the loss of a
patient, dealing with palliative end of life care or counselling grieving
relatives.
The National
Grief Awareness Week is a campaign run by The Good Grief Trust to help raise
awareness of the impact of grief, to encourage open discussion and to highlight
the many bereavement services available.
RELATED LIBRARY
RESOURCES
For anyone experiencing loss and bereavement,
those working in palliative care, anyone studying grief counselling, or for those
supporting patients, or relatives of patients, with the grieving process, the
Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous
resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of
items. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the
counter.
This document covers
the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient
information.
BOOKS
·
Counselling
for loss and bereavement / Tschudin, V; 1997 (Balliere Tindall)
·
Death,
dying and bereavement / Dickenson, D; Johnson M & Katz, J; 2000 (Sage Publications), 2nd
edition
·
On death
and dying: what the dying have to teach doctors, nurses, clergy, and their own
families / Kubler-Ross,
E; 2011 (Scribner)
·
An
introduction to coping with grief / Morris, S; 2017 (Robinson), 2nd
edition
·
Family
focused grief therapy: a model of family-centred care during palliative care
and bereavement / Kissane,
D.W; Bloch, S; 2002 (Open University Press)
·
Bereavement:
a guide for nurses / Penson, J.
M; 1990 (Harper & Row)
·
Working
with loss and grief: a theoretical and practical approach / Machin, L; 2014 (SAGE), 2nd
edition
JOURNALS
·
Journal of loss
& trauma, Taylor and
Francis. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 2001 onwards)
·
Death Studies, Taylor and Francis. (Available as a
Keele and NHS e-journal from 1993 onwards)
·
BMC Palliative
Care, BioMed
Central. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 2002 onwards)
·
Journal of
social work in end-of-life & palliative care (previous title Loss, grief & care),
Haworth Press. (Available as a Keele e-journal from 1987 onwards)
·
Illness, crisis and loss, SAGE Publications. (Available as a
Keele e-journal from 1999 onwards)
Access more
journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES
·
Boelen, Paul A,
Smid, Geert.E, “Disturbed grief: prolonged grief disorder and persistent
complex bereavement disorder”, BMJ (Online), 2017, Vol.357 (8106),
p.j2016-j2016, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j2016. [Available in print and also via Keele
and NHS e-journals]
·
Godlee, Fiona,
“Why we need to make space for grief”, BMJ (Online), 2021, Vol.374,
p.n2144, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n2144. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]
·
Sweeney, Susan,
“Bearing Bad News: The Impact of Delivering and Receiving News of Sudden
Bereavement”, Illness, crisis, and loss, 2021, p.105413732110616, DOI:
10.1177/10541373211061650. [Available via Keele e-journals].
·
Kameg, Brayden,
“Prolonged Grief Disorder: Identification and Management”, Issues in mental
health nursing, 2022, Vol.ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), p.1-2, DOI:
10.1080/01612840.2022.208534. [Available in print and via Keele e-journals]
·
Jordan, T,
Wotring, A.J, et al, “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will
there be a surge of complicated grief?”, Death studies, 2022, Vol.46 (1),
p.84-90, DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2021.1929571. [Available via Keele e-journals]
N.B. NHS staff who are members of the Health Library can
request a temporary Keele username which allows access to Keele e-journals from
the Keele IT Suite in the Health Library within the CEC at Royal Stoke.
PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:
·
The Good Grief Trust - https://www.thegoodgrieftrust.org/
·
NHS Website - https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/advice-for-life-situations-and-events/bereavement/
·
Clinical Key [Available
to UHNM only] - Grieving: Facing Illness, Death and Other Losses - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_AAFP_grieving-facing-illness-death-and-other-losses_en
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