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Grief, Trauma, and Loss: A Resource List

Campus Violence: Prevention & Recovery

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On the anniversary of a traumatic event, such as the Virginia Tech shootings, it is not unusual for individuals to experience an increase in distress. This is commonly known as an "anniversary reaction" and may range from mild upset to significant psychiatric or medical symptoms. In this exhibit, the MSU Counseling Center Staff reflects on the 1-year anniversary of Virginia Tech and offers a variety of resources for those who may be struggling. Several of these are listed below. MSU students who wish to speak with a counselor are encouraged to visit the Counseling Center at 207 Student Services Building or call 355-8270. For additional resources, please check the Center's website at http://www.counseling.msu.edu/.

Book Resource List:

When bad things happen to other people
Portmann, John.
New York : Routledge, 2000.
MSU MAIN LIBRARY - BJ1409 .P67 2000

When bad things happen to good people
Kushner, Harold S.
New York : Avon, 1983, c1981.
MSU MAIN LIBRARY - BM645.P7 K87 1983

Loss, trauma, and resilience : therapeutic work with ambiguous loss
Boss, Pauline.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
MSU MAIN LIBRARY - BF575.D35 B68 2006

Campus violence : kinds, causes, and cures
New York : Haworth Press, c1993.
MSU MAIN LIBRARY - LB2345 .C36 1993

Violence goes to college : the authoritative guide to prevention and intervention
Nicoletti, John.
Springfield, Ill. : Charles. C Thomas Publisher, c2001.
MSU MAIN LIBRARY - LB2345 .N53 2001

Bereavement, Grief & Trauma

Bereaved Children and Teens
Earl A. Grollman

This resource is a comprehensive guide to helping children and adolescents cope with the emotional, religious, social, and physical consequences of a loved one's death.

Bereavement & Loss Training Manual
Alice Goodall, Tim Drage & Gillian Bell

This resource outlines a comprehensive yet flexible program that can be used by both the professional trainer and the less experienced course leader.

Bereavement and Support
Marylou Hughes, L.C.S.W., D.P.A.

Addressing the basis and need for support groups for the bereaved, this book presents a theoretical overview, examines the benefits and variety of support groups (structured and unstructured, special populations), and the specifics for initiating, organizing, and running them -- such as publicity, facilitator recruitment/screening and objective/subjective skills, screening of participants, and individual/group goal-setting.

Broken Heart Still Beats
Anne McCracken and Mary Semel

There are few, if any, events in life as traumatic, heart-wrenching, and crushing as the death of a child. While nothing can mute the pain of such a life-shattering loss, others who know this experience can help those suffering articulate the chaos of their feelings and see that they can, eventually, feel whole again.

Children and Grief
William Worden

Children and Grief will advance the reader's understanding of the impact and needs of children who have had a parent die. The author goes beyond simply sharing the results of a longitudinal study, which in itself would be helpful. He also identifies those most at risk, and discusses models for interventions. -Donna L. Schuurman, Ed.D., Executive Director, The Dougy Center for Grieving Children, Portland OR

Children and Trauma
Cynthia Monahon

This resource teaches professionals and parents about the effects of tramatic situations that might occur to children. Be it a car accident, an earthquake or flood, undergoing a frightening medical treatment. This guide offers a blueprint for restoring a child's sense of safety and balance.

Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy
J. William Worden

In this resource the author describes the mechanisms of grief and the procedures for helping clients accomplish the "tasks of mourning" to facilitate moving through the process of normal grieving.

Grief, Bereavement and Change
Penny Casdagli and Francis Gobey

This resource will show you how to deal with loss in an open, uninhibited way throught a series of experiential, drama-based workshops.

Helping Bereaved Children
Nancy Boyd Webb

This resource presenting a range of intervention approaches from counseling to therapy, full-length clinical examples illustrate treatment strategies for working with children at various developmental stages and with different kinds of bereavement.

Helping Children with Loss Storybook & The Day the Sea Went Out and Never Came Back Guidebook
Margot Sunderland

Storybook and Guidebook set. Includes what children themselves have said about what it is like for them, what they have felt struggling with the too difficult feeling and what they have done because of it.

Helping Teens Work Through Grief
Mary Kelly Perschy, M.S.

This manual is written for adults who are looking to connect with grieving teens. The activities will give you structure to enable teens to reflect upon and talk about their individual concerns.

In the Presence of Grief
Dorothy S. Becvar Foreword by Pauline Boss

Illuminating the impact of loss and grief on our psychological and emotional lives, this book provides vital guidance to ease painful transitions and facilitate healing.

Life After Trauma
Dena Rosenbloom, PhD and Mary Beth Williams, PhD

This supportive workbook helps trauma survivors find and use crucial skills for coping, self-understanding, and self-care.

Living Through Loss
Fay W. Jacobsen, Margaret Kindlen, and Allison Shoemaker

This resource aims to provide a complete program to train people who are expected to support others experiencing bereavement and other emotional trauma.

Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss
Edited by Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D.

This book examines the subject of abrupt, unexpected death and its effects on and implication for the survivors left behind. Topics covered include: heart attack and stroke, vehicular crashes, suicide, violent death, disaster, the military and complicated grief, and treatment methods for traumatic loss.

Living with Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve
by Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D. and Joyce D. Davidson

This volume examines the ways in which these key aspects of identity affect how individuals grieve. Specifically explored are the effects of such variables as culture, spirituality, age and developmental level, class and gender on the ways individuals grieve.

Loss, Change and Grief
Erica Brown

This work aims to explore experience of loss, change and grief, and foster positive attitudes towards teaching and learning about these issues.

Perspectives on Loss: A Sourcebook
John H. Harvey

Losses are integral to the human experience, but they sometimes unfold in subtle ways. Loss is not just about death, but can encompass a number of situations, such as those gradual losses experienced by the elderly: loss of vision, mental capacity, or hope. Intended to stimulate ideas and research in the new area of psychological aspects of loss, this sourcebook collects the writing of a set of distinguished scholars representing psychology and related fields.

Remembrances and Celebrations
Edited by Jill Werman Harris

This is a collection of powerful and inspirational responses to loss and to the age-old impulse to honor and memorialize the uniqueness of each human being.

Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents
Dennis Klass, Ph.D., Wester University, St. Louis, MO

This book describes how parents lose, find, or relocate spiritual anchors after the death of their child. It describes how ordinary people reconstruct their lives after their foundations have shifted, how they reconnect after one of their primary attachments has been lost, and how they make sense of their world after one of their centers of meaning has been removed.

Student Dies, A School Mourns
Ralph L. Klicker, Ph.D.

The book not only examines and explains the grief reactions of students and school staff members and the factors that affect these reactions, it also provides a systematic guide for developing a death-related crisis response plan.

Talking with Children and Young People about Death and Dying
Mary Turner

The pain of bereavement for a child or young person is often compounded by the nature of the relationship they had with the person who has died, the circumstances of the death, and by practical worries about the present and the future. This workbook will help you to explain death and dying.

Treating Psychological Trauma and PTSD
Edited by John P. Wilson, Matthew J. Friedman, and Jacob D. Lindy

This volume presents an innovative psychobiological framework for understanding and treating PTSD.

Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents
Judith A. Cohen, Anthony P. Mannarino, and Esther Deblinger

This is one of the first books to present a systematic treatment approach, grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy, for traumatized children and their families.

When a Community Weeps:
Ellen S. Zinner, Psy.D. & Mary Beth Williams, Ph.D.

The goal of this book is to explore how communities rebound, reflect, and recover from the events they have experienced. Building upon these accounts, the volume then discusses strategies to assist grieving communities heal and bring closure. Each chapter presents a specific traumatic event or series of events and gives perspectives on how these events affected the individuals involved as well as the community as a whole.

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