Patient Education2 Minute ReadMay | 1 | 2020
Transitions, Grief & Loss
Palliative Care & GeriatricsMaxwell V. Blum Cancer Resource Room
These resources are for informational purposes only and do not constitute endorsement.
Grief and Bereavement
- Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief.
- Joanne Cacciatore, 2017.
- It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand.
- Megan Devine, 2018.
- The Year of Magical Thinking.
- Joan Didion, 2007.
- Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing hidden sorrow.
- Kenneth Doka, 1989.
- Beyond Kübler-Ross: New perspectives on death, dying and grief.
- Kenneth Doka, et al., 2011.
- Healing after Loss: Daily meditations for working through grief.
- Martha Whitmore Hickman, 2011.
- The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith.
- John W. James and Russell Friedman, 2009.
- Finding Meaning: the Sixth Stage of Grief.
- David Kessler, 2019.
- A Grief Observed.
- C.S. Lewis, 1983.
- To Bless the Space between us: A Book of Blessings.
- John O'Donohue, 2008.
- The Cure for Sorrow: a Book of Blessings for Times of Grief.
- Jan Richardson, 2016.
- Threads of Hope: an Offering for Those Who Grieve.
- Beth Rotondo, 2004.
- Tear Soup: A recipe for healing after loss.
- Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen, 2005.
- A Grace Disguised: How the soul grows through loss.
- Jerry Sittser and Gerald Lawson Sittser, 2004.
- Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart.
- Wolfelt, Alan Wolfelt, 2004.
- Lament for a Son.
- Nicholas Wolterstorff, 1987.
Grief Resources for Youth and Teens
- The Butterfly Field.
- Alquin Gliane and Cedric Gliane, 2001.
- The Heart and the Bottle.
- Oliver Jeffers, 2011.
- The Invisible String.
- Patrice Karst and Joanne Lew-Vriethoff, 2018.
- My Father's Arms are a Boat.
- Stein Erik Lunde and Oyvind Torseter, 2012.
- Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children.
- Brian Mellonie, 2009.
- Love Is Forever.
- Casey Rislov and Rachael Balsaitis, 2013.
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Centers and Departments
PCGM
Palliative Care is under the Division of Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine (PCGM). PCGM at Mass General offers a wide range of clinical expertise including inpatient services, outpatient programs and home based programs.