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Online Links

Grief links dealing specifically with cancer:

• American Cancer Society: Coping with Grief and Loss
• National Cancer Institute: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
• Medline Plus: Bereavement

Memorial website:

A memorial website is a sincere and meaningful way to celebrate the life of a beloved family member, friend or other person who has passed away. It is a forum to pay tribute to the departed and offer comfort to those left behind.

There are many easy-to-use, friendly websites on the world wide web that allow you to create and maintain a memorial website, keeping the memory of your loved one alive.

Books & Book Chapters

Blank, J. W. (1998). The death of an adult child: A book for and about bereaved parents. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Companym Inc.

Bouvard, M. (1988), The path through grief: A practical guide. Portland, OR: Breitenbush Books, Inc.

Cook, A. S., & Dworkin, D. S. (1992). Helping the bereaved: Therapeutic interventions for children adolescents, and adults. NY, NY: Basic Books.

Doka, K. J., & Gordon, J. D. (1998). Living with grief: Who we are, how we grieve. New York, NY: Brunner/Mazel.

Gilbert, K. R. (2005). When a couple loses a child, Ch 1 in D.R. Catherall, (Ed.). Family stressors: Interventions for stress and trauma (pp. 1-30), New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Kagan(Klein), H. (1998). The readjustment model of parental bereavement: Inward and outward steps (pp. 124-121). Ch 8 in H. Kagan(Klein),Gili's book: A readjustment model of parental bereavement. Teachers College Press, Columbia University.

McGoldrick, M. (2004). Gender and mourning. Ch 6 in F. Walsh & M. McGoldrick, (Eds.) Living beyond loss: Death in the family (pp. 99-118). New York: W. W. Norton & Co.

Parkes, C. M. (1997). Bereavement: What most people should know. In J. D. Morgan (Eds.), Readings in thanatology. (pp. 241-253). Amityville, NY: Baywood Pub. Co., Inc.

Papers

Gilbert, K. R. (1996). 'We've had the same loss, why don't we have the same grief?' Loss and differential grief in families, Death Studies, 20, 269-283.

Hogan, N. S. & Balk, D. E. (1990). Adolescent reactions to sibling death: Perceptions of mothers, fathers, and teenagers. Nursing Research, 39, 103-106.

Klass, D. (1993). Solace and immortality: Bereaved parents' continuing bond with their children, Death Studies, 17, 343-368.

Martinson, I. M., & Campos, R. G. (1991). Adolescent bereavement: Long-term responses to a sibling's death from cancer. Journal of Adolescent Research, 6, 54-69. Nadeau, J. W. (1998). Families making sense of death. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Thomas, P. (1996). Big boys don't cry? Mental health and the politics of gender, Journal of Mental Health, 5, 107-110.