Guides

Here we aim to provide short and helpful guides on a range of topics:

Introducing Bereavement - The Death of Someone Close
This guide gives you detailed descriptions of the majority of emotions and experiences which can affect people when someone close to them has died.  It will help you to make sense of your own experiences, and to know that usually these are normal reactions to difficult times in peoples' lives. Read...

Bereaved by Suicide
Particular difficulties can be associated with the situation following a suicide. These are described and ideas given on how to deal with some of them. Anger, guilt and fear are some of the emotions most frequently experienced following such a death: ways to understand and cope with such feelings are described. A section indicates how to help any children who may have been connected with the death. Finally, there are ideas on how you may be able to help yourself; and a specific book list. Read...

Death of a Parent
This describes some of the emotions most commonly associated with grief following the death of a parent: what may be happening in the early days: and ways in which you may find help. It refers to the longer-term changes in families and in situations, and some of the effects on the student in school or college. It comments on some of the changes which may occur in the life-style of the surviving parent. Finally it gives some ideas on preserving the good memories associated with the parent who has died. Read...

Grieving Children
This guide describes ways in which children react to the death of someone close to them.  It indicates how children can be helped by adults they know well, or by trained support workers. Read...

Help for Teenagers
This leaflet describes some of the ways in which as a teenager you might be responding to bereavement.  It describes the normal process of grieving and suggests when it might be appropriate to seek help. Book list included. Read...