Grief and Loss

  Resource Web Page from the Skillman Center for Children 

Selected books and videos

 

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Links

Skillman Center Publications

 Programs for grieving youth in Detroit

 

  Selected Books and Videos Available from the Resource Center

 

Books

35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child 

by Amy R. Barrett 

BF 723 .G75 D68 1999

Bereaved Children and Teens: A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals 

edited by Earl A. Grollman

BF 723 .D3 B46 1995

Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief-- Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse 
by Linda Goldman

BF 723.G75 G64 2001

Children Are Survivors Too: A Guide Book for Young Homicide Survivors 
by Kathleen A. Aub 

HV 6529 .A82 1995

Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner 

by J. William Worden
RC 455.4 .L67 W67 2002

The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends 

by Helen Fitzgerald
BF 724.3 .G73 F58 2000

Guiding Your Child Through Grief 

by Mary Ann Emswiler & James P. Emswiler
BF 723 .G75 E57 2000

Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas 

by Alan D. Wolfelt
BF 724.3 .G73 W64 2001

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas 

by Alan D. Wolfelt
BF 724.3.G73 W65 2001

Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies 
by Janis Silverman

BF 723 .D3 S57 1999

Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss 

by Claudia Jewett Jarratt
BF 723 .G75 J48 1994

Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One: A Guide for Grownups 
by William C. Kroen

BF 723.G75 K76 1996

Helping Teens Cope with Death
by the Dougy Center

BF 723 .D3 .D68 1999

Helping Teens Work Through Grief 

by Mary Kelly Perschy

BF 724.3.G73 P47 1997

Homeworks #1: At-Home Training Resources for Foster Parents and Adoptive Parents: Helping Children and Youths Manage Separation and Loss 

by Eileen Mayers Pasztor and Maureen Leighton

HV 875 .P34 1993

I Will Remember You: What to Do When Someone You Love Dies: A Guidebook Through Grief for Teens

by Laura Dower
BF 724.3 .G73 D68 2001

Life & Loss: A Guide to Help Grieving Children

by Linda Goldman
BF 723 .G75 G65 2000

Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide, or Even Starts Talking About It 
by Earl A. Grollman and Max Malikow
BF 724.3 .G73 G76 1999

Living with Grief after Sudden Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke 

edited by Kenneth J. Doka
BF 575 .G7 L58 1996

Living with Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve 

edited by Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce D. Davidson 

BF 575 .G7 L59 1998

Loss, Change and Grief: An Educational Perspective 

by Erica Brown
BF 723 .D3 B76 1999

Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief, and Change 
by Barbara Coloroso 

BF 723 .L68 C65 2000

Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love

by Earl A. Grollman 

BF 724.3 .G73 G76 1993

A Student Dies, a School Mourns: Dealing with Death and Loss in the School Community

by Ralph L. Klicker 

LB 2866.5 .K55 2000

What Happened to the World?: Helping Children Cope in Turbulent Times 
by Jim Greenman 

BF 723 .L68 G73 2001 

 

Children’s Books

 

Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope 
by Donna O’Toole 

BF 575 .G7 O86 1989

The Empty Place: A Child's Guide through Grief 

by Roberta Temes
BF 723 .G75 T45 1992

Everett Anderson's Goodbye 

by Lucille Clifton
PZ 8.3 .C573 Evh 1983

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf 

by Leo Buscaglia
PZ 7 .B957 Fal 2002

Goodbye, Mousie

by Robie H. Harris
BF 723 .D3 H37 2001

Lifetimes: A Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children 

by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen 

HQ 1073.3 .M45 1983

Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs 

written and illustrated by Tomie de Paola
PZ 7 .D439 Nan 1998

Sad Isn't Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing with Loss 

by Michaelene Mundy
BF 723 .D3 M86 1998

 

Saying Goodbye 

by Jim & Joan Boulden
BF 723 .D3 B68 1998

 

What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies?

by Trevor Romain
BF 723 .G75 R65 1999

 

You Hold Me and I'll Hold You

by Jo Carson
PZ 7 .C2388 Yo 1992

 

Videos

 

Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope
Rainbow Connection, c1994, 45 minutes
BF 575 .G7 O86 1994

 

After the Violence
T.L.C. Institute; Film Ideas, Inc., 1993, 30 min.
BF 575 .G7 .A47 1993

 

Beyond Death's Door: Help for the Grieving Process After Someone You Love Has Died
Paraclete Video Productions, 1999. 35 minutes
BF 575 .G7 B49 1999

 

Dealing with Death
Castle Works, 2000. 30 minutes 
BF 724.3.D43 D42 2000

 

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
AIMS Media, 1985, 17 minutes
BF 723 .D3 F34 1985

 

Forever Changed: Children and Grief
Henry Ford Health System, 2000 
BF 723 .G75 F67 2000

 

No One Ever Told Us: Teenagers Talking About Death
Teen Age Grief, 1994, 23 minutes
BF 724.3 .D43 M36 1994

 

A Place Prepared: Helping Children Understand Death and Heaven
Paraclete Press, 2000, 40 minutes
BF 723 .D3 P52 2000

 

Saying Goodbye
Compassion Books, 1998. 14 minutes
BF 723 .D3 B68 1998

 

The Shattered Dimension: The Journey of Grief After Suicide
In-Sight Books, 2000. 40 minutes
BF 575 .G7 S52 2000

 

Standing Tall
Centering Corporation, 1994, 14 minutes
BF 724.3 .G73 S72 1994

 

To Touch a Grieving Heart
Panacom Video Pub, 1994. 40 minutes
BF 575.G7 T62 1994

 

Working With Grieving Children: A Three-Part Video to Accompany the "Guidebook For Crime Victim Advocates"
National Organization for Victim Assistance, 1997, 27 minutes
HV 6250.3 .U5 W67 1997

 

About the Resource Center

The Skillman Center’s Resource Center has a variety of additional resources on this topic and many others related to urban children, youth and families. Staff members are available to assist you in finding books, videos, other material and Internet resources. All materials can be borrowed for two weeks and there is no fee for this service.

 

The Resource Center is located in the Skillman Building at 100 E. Palmer, Detroit (on the corner of John R and Palmer).  The Center is open from 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. Please call (313) 872-7166 for more information.

 

   Search the Resource Center Catalog

To search for more books or videos available on grief and loss at The  Skillman Center for Children Resource Center, please read the following instructions, then click here to go the WSU Advanced Search page. This page will open in a new window. Minimize the new window to read the instructions below.

1. Enter your Keyword Search Terms in the boxes available.

2. Click on the Arrow Key next to "Limit to: To All Collections"

3. Then scroll down and choose "Skillman Center for Children"

4. Click the Submit button

  Skillman Center Publications

 

Summer 2004 Newsletter: The Urban Child Advocate, Childhood Grief and Loss (PDF)

Places that help grieving children in Detroit

 To search for groups that help grieving children in Detroit, please read the following instructions, then go to the Skillman Center for Children's youth directory, www.detroitkids.org . This page will open in a new window. Minimize the new window to read the instructions below.

 

1. Click on help for youth.

2. Choose counseling

3.  Choose grief support from the pull down menu. Click search.

 

Skillman Center for Children 

Wayne State University

100 East Palmer, Detroit, Michigan 48202

 

Phone (313) 872-7166  FAX (313) 872-7126 Email - skillmancenter@wayne.edu

 

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