Grief & Loss Worksheets

• Potvin, L., Lasker, J., & Toedter, L. (1989). Measuring grief: A short version of the Perinatal Grief Scale. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 11(1), 29-45.  download archived copy
• Prigerson, H. G., Maciejewski, P. K., Reynolds, C. F., Bierhals, A. J., Newsom, J. T., Fasiczka, A., … & Miller, M. (1995). Inventory of Complicated Grief: a scale to measure maladaptive symptoms of loss. Psychiatry research, 59(1), 65-79 download  archived copy

Treatment guides

• When someone you know has died… – a guide for professionals offering bereavement support  hee.nhs.uk  archive.org
• Some principles of grief work by Dr Blatner  download blatner.com

Information handouts

• Coping with grief and loss ucdavis.edu
• Bereavement – a self-help guide ntw.nhs.uk archive.org
• Your grief: You’re not going crazy madd.org archive.org
• Helping children to cope with death madd.org archive.org
• Grief and bereavement information sheet cci.health.wa.gov archive.org
  
• Restoring hope – short booklet from Cruse bereavement care cruse.org.uk archive.org
• Coping with trauma and loss – short booklet from Cruse bereavement care cruse.org.uk archive.org
• Supporting children through grief cruse.org.uk archive.org
• After someone dies – booklet for young people cruse.org.uk archive.org
• Common reactions to grief and loss handout  unsw.edu.au  archive.org

Exercises, Worksheets & Workbooks

• Ole and Trufa – a story about two leaves which may be useful in a discussion of grief psychologytools.com
• Remembering for good – grief workbook sun.ac.za archive.org
• Solution-focused interventions for prolonged grief solutionsdoc.co.uk archive.org

• Attachment, loss, and complicated grief – Dr M. Katherine Shear columbia.edu archive.org
• Grief and bereavement: a practical approach – Ian Anderson utoronto.ca archive.org
• Bereavement and loss – Barbara McKay cruse.org.uk archive.org
• Supporting the bereaved: theory and practice chaplaincyacademy.com archive.org
• Complicated grief treatment: the theory, practice and outcomes – Dr M. Katherine Shear uleth.ca archive.org
• ACT and grief – Russ Harris contextualscience.org archive.org
• Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to negotiate losses and life transitions – Speedlin, Milligan, Haberstroh, Duffey counselling.org archive.org

• Boelen, P. A., Van Den Hout, M. A., Van Den Bout, J. (2006). A cognitive behavioral conceptualization of complicated grief. Clinical Psychology: Science And Practice, 13(2), 109-128 [[$LINK]] wiley.com
• Clark, A. (2004). Working with grieving adults. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 10, 164-170 rcpsych.org
• Malkinson, R. (2010). Cognitive-behavioral grief therapy: The ABC model of rational-emotive behaviour therapy. Psychological Topics, 19 (2), 289-305 hrcak.srce.hr archive.org
• An analysis of the concept of ‘chronic sorrow’. Olshanksy coined the term in the 1960’s to describe what he saw as the sense of loss some parents of disabled children have. The term has been expanded to encompass the loss that some people experience when faced with life-limited or option-limiting conditions rivier.edu
• Rosner, R., Pfoh, G., & Kotoučová, M. (2011). Treatment of complicated grief. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2. ejpt.net researchgate.net
• Sabar, S. (2000). Bereavement, grief, and mourning: A gestalt perspective. Gestalt Review, 4(2), 152-168 stephaniesabar.com archive.org
• Shear, M. K. (2015). Complicated grief. N Engl J Med, 2015(372), 153-160 bgu.ac.il archive.org
• Shear, K., Monk, T., Houck, P. et al. (2007). An attachment based model of complicated grief including the role of avoidance nih.gov
• Stroebe, M., & Schut, H. (2010). The dual process model of coping with bereavement: A decade on. OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying, 61(4), 273-289. researchgate.net
• Solomon, R. M., & Rando, T. A. (2007). Utilization of EMDR in the treatment of grief and mourning. Journal of EMDR Practice and research, 1(2), 109-117. researchgate.net
• Wong, P. T. P. (2008). Transformation of grief through meaning: Meaning-centered counseling for bereavement. In A. Tomer, G. T. Eliason, & P. T. P. Wong (Eds.), Existential and spiritual issues in death attitudes (pp. 375-396). New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. psu.edu archive.org