by Tara J Lal
Grief and Bereavement
Australia:
The National Centre for Childhood Grief: www.childhoodgrief.org.au
Provides support for bereaved children in Australia.
Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement: www.grief.org.au
Provides support for bereaved people through research, education and consultancy.
UK:
Cruse Bereavement Care: www.cruse.org.uk
Offers face-to-face, telephone, email and website support.
Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide: www.uk-sobs.org.uk
Offers support and information for those bereaved by suicide.
Winston’s Wish: www.winstonswish.org.uk
Provides support specifically for bereaved children in the UK.
USA:
National Alliance for Grieving Children: www.childrengrieve.org
Advice, support and information for bereaved children.
The Center for Complicated Grief: www.complicatedgrief.org
Help and support for those suffering from complicated grief.
Training Courses
Mental Health First Aid:
www.mhfa.com.au/cms/international-mhfa-programs
Australia: www.mhfa.com.au
UK: www.mhfaengland.org[URL inactive]
USA: www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org
Mental Health First Aid provides training packages all over the world that teach how to help people who may be developing a mental illness or who are in crisis.
Living Works: www.livingworks.net
International suicide-intervention training.
PABBS: www.suicidebereavementuk.com
Provides professionals with an opportunity to build their confidence and skills on how to respond to and care for those bereaved by suicide.
Online E-learning Sites for Depression and Anxiety:
This way up www.thiswayup.org.au
My Compass: www.mycompass.org.au
Self-help service aiming to promote resilience and wellbeing.
Books
Personal Growth and Development
Frankl, Viktor E., Man’s Search for Meaning, Rider & Co, 2011 Peck, M. Scott, The Road Less Travelled, Touchstone Books, 1997
Depression
Akhtar, Miriam, Positive Psychology for Overcoming Depression, Watkins Publishing, 2012
Gilbert, Paul, Overcoming Depression, Robinson Publishing, 2009
Williams, Mark, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zin, The Mindful Way Through Depression, Guildford Press, 2007
Anxiety and Stress
Lejeune, Chad, The Worry Trap, New Harbinger Publications, 2007
Marks, Isaac, Living with Fear, McGraw-Hill, 2005
Suicide
Ellis, Thomas E., Choosing to Live, New Harbinger Publications, 1996 (Self-help for those who are considering suicide.)
Grief
Albom, Mitch, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Little, Brown, 2003
Lewis, C. S., A Grief Observed, Faber & Faber, 1961
McKissock, Mal, Coping with Grief, fourth edition, Kindle, 2012
Trauma
Akhtar, Miriam, What is Post-Traumatic Growth? Watkins 2017
Mum and Dad’s wedding, 6 August 1966. This is the hat Dad wore to the beach on honeymoon … as you do!
The three Lal musketeers in happy times on holiday in 1979, just before we buried Adam in that hole in the sand!
Mum and me in 1984. A treasured moment of affection on what would end up being our last family holiday. It was this haven of maternal warmth and love that I would spend my life searching to recreate.
Adam and me, Christmas 1987. Another of Adam’s and my party tricks, once we progressed from standing on each other’s shoulders.
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