National Grief Awareness Week 2nd – 8th December 2022

 Grief can be isolating and overwhelming, particularly at this time of year. Whilst the majority of people are looking forward to spending time with their loved ones, there will be many who will have empty seats at their table this Christmas. Those suffering a bereavement may feel uncomfortable speaking about their grief and feel pressure to be “happy” and “festive”. 

Whilst for many the bereavement will be for a friend or family member, for those working in the NHS and wider health and social care communities it may be the loss of a patient, dealing with palliative end of life care or counselling grieving relatives.

The National Grief Awareness Week is a campaign run by The Good Grief Trust to help raise awareness of the impact of grief, to encourage open discussion and to highlight the many bereavement services available.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone experiencing loss and bereavement, those working in palliative care, anyone studying grief counselling, or for those supporting patients, or relatives of patients, with the grieving process, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

BOOKS

• Counselling for loss and bereavement / Tschudin, V; 1997 (Balliere Tindall)

• Death, dying and bereavement / Dickenson, D; Johnson M & Katz, J; 2000 (Sage Publications), 2^nd edition

• On death and dying: what the dying have to teach doctors, nurses, clergy, and their own families / Kubler-Ross, E; 2011 (Scribner)

• An introduction to coping with grief / Morris, S; 2017 (Robinson), 2^nd edition

• Family focused grief therapy: a model of family-centred care during palliative care and bereavement / Kissane, D.W; Bloch, S; 2002 (Open University Press)

• Bereavement: a guide for nurses / Penson, J. M; 1990 (Harper & Row)

• Working with loss and grief: a theoretical and practical approach / Machin, L; 2014 (SAGE), 2^nd edition

JOURNALS

• Journal of loss & trauma, Taylor and Francis. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 2001 onwards)

• Death Studies, Taylor and Francis. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 1993 onwards)

• BMC Palliative Care, BioMed Central. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 2002 onwards)

• Journal of social work in end-of-life & palliative care (previous title Loss, grief & care), Haworth Press. (Available as a Keele e-journal from 1987 onwards)

• Illness, crisis and loss, SAGE Publications. (Available as a Keele e-journal from 1999 onwards)

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Boelen, Paul A, Smid, Geert.E, “Disturbed grief: prolonged grief disorder and persistent complex bereavement disorder”, BMJ (Online), 2017, Vol.357 (8106), p.j2016-j2016, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j2016. [Available in print and also via Keele and NHS e-journals]

• Godlee, Fiona, “Why we need to make space for grief”, BMJ (Online), 2021, Vol.374, p.n2144, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n2144. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]

• Sweeney, Susan, “Bearing Bad News: The Impact of Delivering and Receiving News of Sudden Bereavement”, Illness, crisis, and loss, 2021, p.105413732110616, DOI: 10.1177/10541373211061650. [Available via Keele e-journals].

• Kameg, Brayden, “Prolonged Grief Disorder: Identification and Management”, Issues in mental health nursing, 2022, Vol.ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), p.1-2, DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2022.208534. [Available in print and via Keele e-journals]

• Jordan, T, Wotring, A.J, et al, “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief?”, Death studies, 2022, Vol.46 (1), p.84-90, DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2021.1929571. [Available via Keele e-journals]

N.B. NHS staff who are members of the Health Library can request a temporary Keele username which allows access to Keele e-journals from the Keele IT Suite in the Health Library within the CEC at Royal Stoke.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:

• The Good Grief Trust - https://www.thegoodgrieftrust.org/

• NHS Website - https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/advice-for-life-situations-and-events/bereavement/

• Clinical Key [Available to UHNM only] - Grieving: Facing Illness, Death and Other Losses - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_AAFP_grieving-facing-illness-death-and-other-losses_en

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:

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For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/.