Additional Resources
Below is a list of resources to support continued learning and strengthen grief sensitive practice in healthcare settings. Resources shared through the GSHP are reviewed to ensure alignment with our mission and values.
Websites
General Grief
- Speaking Grief
- New York Life Grief Supportive Workplace Initiative
- The Trauma and Grief (TAG) Center's Virtual Learning Library
- The Compassionate Friends
- Courageous Parents Network
- Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Inc. (TAPS)
- Surviving Life After a Parent Dies
- Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement
Children’s Grief
Books
General Grief
- The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss, by Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD
- The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing, by Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD
- Can Anyone Tell Me? Essential Questions About Grief and Loss, by Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LCSW
- It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand, by Megan Devine, LPC
- Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow, Breeshia Wade
- Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief, by Darcy L. Harris, PhD, FT, (Editor), Tashel C. Bordere, PhD. (Editor), Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD (Editor)
- Giving Hope: Conversations with Children About Illness, Death, and Loss, by Elena Lister, MD and Michael Schwartzman, PhD
- HUMAN(e): A Radical Reimagining of Grief, Loss and Learning to Live Without, by Rachelle Bensoussan
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande, MD, MPH
- Disenfranchised Grief and Non-Death Losses by Kenneth J. Doka, PhD
- Non-Death Loss and Grief: Context and Clinical Implications by Darcy L. Harris, RN, RSW, MEd (Couns), PhD, FT
- Ambiguous Loss Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief by Pauline Boss, PhD
- Meaning Reconstruction and the Experience of Loss by Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD
Books for Children and Teens
- My Grief Comfort Book: Creative Activities to Help Kids Cope with Loss and Keep Memories Alive, by Brie Overton, PhD, FT, LPC-S, NCC
- It Won't Ever Be the Same: A Teen's Guide to Grief and Grieving, by Korie Leigh, PhD
- The Invisible String, by Patrice Karst
- National Alliance for Children’s Grief (NACG): Activity Books
Articles
Grief
- Hidden in Plain Sight: A Scoping Review of Professional Grief in Healthcare and Charting a Path for Change
- General Practitioners' experiences of bereavement care and their educational support needs: a qualitative study
- Cautioning Health-Care Professionals: Bereaved Persons Are Misguided Through the Stages of Grief
- Stages of Grief Portrayed on the Internet: A Systematic Analysis and Critical Appraisal
- Death awareness, feelings of uncertainty, and hope in advanced lung cancer patients: can they coexist?
- Hope, life, and death: a qualitative analysis of dying cancer patients' talk about hope
- Clinical Care Considerations for Bereaved Patients
- Grieving as a Form of Learning: Insights from Neuroscience Applied to Grief and Loss
- Functional neuroanatomy of grief: an FMRI study
- Conjugal bereavement effects on health and mortality at advanced ages
- Losing a Spouse Makes Men 70% More Likely to Die Within a Year
- The Forgotten Mourners: Addressing Health Care Provider Grief—A Systematic Review
- Matters of the heart: Grief, morbidity, and mortality
- Home Care Workers' Experiences of Client Death and Disenfranchised Grief
- Supporting Resilience and the Management of Grief and Loss among Nurses: Qualitative Themes from a Continuing Education Program
- Difficult patient loss and physician culture for oncologists grieving patient loss
- Riding the Roller Coaster: A Qualitative Study of Oncology Nurses' Emotional Experience in Caring for Patients and Their Families
- Grief in Medical Students: The Short and Long-Term Impacts on Health and Well-Being
- A Comparative Study Of Grief Support And Burnout Among Nursing Home Staff
- Supporting Nurses When a Patient Dies
- Working Through Loss: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Physicians' Grief
- The Context and Process of Theory Development: The Story of Ambiguous Loss
- Nature and Impact of Grief Over Patient Loss on Oncologists' Personal and Professional Lives
- Disciplinary Wounds: Has Grief Become the Identified Patient for a Field Gone Awry?
- Death as a Professional Challenge: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Exposure to Patient Death, Occupational Burnout, and Perceptions of Death Among Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinicians
- Articulating Grief: Arts‐Based Therapy as a Pathway to Resilience in Nursing Practice
- Oncologists’ negative attitudes towards expressing emotion
- over patient death and burnout
- The lived experience of physicians dealing with patient death
Suggest a Resource
We continue to expand and refine our resource library. If you are aware of articles, tools, organizations, or trainings that support grief informed healthcare, particularly those grounded in inclusive and culturally responsive practice, we welcome your suggestions.
The content on this site is provided for educational and informational purposes only. References to specific resources, organizations, services, or approaches do not constitute endorsement or recommendation by the GSHP. This information is not intended to replace professional medical, mental health, or therapeutic advice, diagnosis, or treatment.