Books For Parents & Professionals
Our staff has compiled the following list of books to aid you in healing, in understanding, and to help you or someone you love cope with the suicide loss of a loved one.
For books for the General Bookstore audience, Teens, or Children, please see the above links for book recommendations under those categories.
Breaking the Silence: A guide to help children with complicated grief ‐ suicide, homicide, aids, violence, and abuse (2001), by Linda Goldman
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After A Suicide: An Activity Book for Grieving Kids, by the Doughy Center
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After A Parent’s Suicide: Helping Children Heal, by Margo Requarth
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But I didn’t Say Goodbye: Helping Children and Families After A Suicide, by Barbara Rubel
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Dying To Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After A Suicide, by Beverly Cobaine
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Group Work with Adolescents After Violent Death: A Manual For Practitioners, by Alison Salloum
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Helping Teens Work Through Grief (Second Edition), by Mary Kelly Perschy
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A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children, by Phyllis R. Silverman
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The Grieving Child: A Parent’s Guide, by Helen Fitzgerald
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Guiding Your Child Through Grief, by James P. Emswiler
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Helping Teens Cope with Death, by the Dougy Center for Grief
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Talking About Death, by Virginia Morris
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The Construction of Meaning Following Parental Suicide: Grief of children following parental suicide, by Dorothy Ratnarajah
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Someone I Love Died by Suicide: A Story for Child Survivors and Those Who Care for Them , by Doreen T. Cammarata (Author), Michael Ives Volk (Illustrator), Leela Accetta (Illustrator)
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Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children, by Liana Lowenstein
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About Dying: An Open Family Book for Parents and Children Together, by Sara Bonnett Stein
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Have you found another book helpful? Let us know and we will add it to our list. Please send an email to Michele@SOSLsd.org
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