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Death and Dying, Life and Living Links and Biblio:  Loss of a Parent

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See also Anticipatory Mourning; Bereavement; Children and Grief; Complicated Mourning/Disenfranchised Grief; Counseling the Bereaved
Grief, Loss of a Child, Loss of a Partner, Loss of a Sibling; Men and Grief; Prisoner's Families; Rituals;  Sudden Death


Akner, Lois F.  How to Survive the Loss of a Parent.  NY: William Morrow, 1993.

Brooks, Jane.  Midlife Orphan:  Facing Life's Changes Now That Your Parents are Gone. 1999.

Chethik, Neil.  Fatherloss:  How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms with the Death of Their Dads.  2001.

Christ, Grace Hyslop.  Healing Children's Grief:  Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer.  NY: Oxford UP, 2000.

Clfton, Lucille.  Everett Anderson's Goodbye.  1983 (children's book)

Edelman, Hope.  Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss.  Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. 1994. BF575 .D35 E34 1995

Erickson, Beth M., Ph.D.  Longing for Dad:  Father Loss and Its Impact.  1998.

Fuchs, Elinor.  Making an Exit: A Mother-Daughter Drama with Machine Tools, Alzheimer's, and Laughter.  2005.

Glick, Liz and Dan Zegart.  Your Father's Voice:  Letter for Emmy About Life with Jeremy -- and without him after 9/11.  2004.

Gilbert, R. Finding Your Way After Your Parent Dies:  Hope for Adults.  1999.

Harris, Maxine, Ph. D.  The Loss That is Forever:  The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father.  Plume, 1996.  BF723 .M35 H37 1996

Holland, John.  Understanding Children's Experiences of Parental Bereavement.  2003.   BF723.G75 H67 2001

Klass, Dennis, Phyllis R. Silverman and Steven L. Nickman, eds.  Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief. 1996.

Klass, Dennis.  The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents.  Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel, 1999.

Levy, Alexander.  Orphaned Adult:  Understanding and Copying With Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents.  1999.  BF575.G7 L495 1999.

Rando, Therese.  How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies.  1991 BF575 .G7 R355 1991

Rosenblatt, Paul. C.  Parent Grief:  Narratives of Loss and Relationship.  2000.  BF575.G7 R673 2000.

Scrivani, Mark.  I Heard Your Daddy Died.  1996. (children's book)

Secunda, Victoria.  Losing Your Parents: Finding Yourself the Defining Turning Point of Adult Life. NY: Hyperion, 2000. HQ755.86 .S43 2000

Simon, Clea.  Fatherless Women:  How We Change After We Lose Our Dads.  John Wiley, 2001.

Smith, Harold Ivan.  On Grieving the Death of a Father.  1994.

Umberson, Debra.  Death of a Parent:  Transition to a New Adult Entity.  2003.  BF789.D4 U48 2003

Worden, J. William.  Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies. 1996.  BF723.G75 W67 1996