Topic
Grief
Grief is a normal reaction to losing someone close, and there is no single right way to live through it. For most people, the pain remains but gradually becomes compatible with daily life; for some, it stays just as intense for a very long time and calls for specific help. The resources in this topic support grieving adults and the parents of a grieving child or teenager.
7 resources
For the public
Supporting a bereaved child or adolescent
What a child understands about death at each age, the exact words for telling them, and the factor that best predicts how they will fare — it is not the one people assume, and it depends on you.
Grief: understanding it, getting through it, and knowing when to ask for help
The five stages do not exist, not falling apart is not coldness, and most people do not need therapy — but around one in ten stays stuck, and for them there is a treatment with demonstrated efficacy.
Facing cancer: emotions, fear of recurrence, and the people close to you
Feeling afraid, sad or angry after being told you have cancer is nothing abnormal, and your state of mind does not decide how the illness will develop. This guide helps you tell expected distress apart from depression or an anxiety disorder, then offers a step-by-step method for what weighs most: fatigue, the nights, waiting for test results, the fear that the cancer will come back, a changed body, silence in the family. It also says what helps when the illness is advancing, and how the people close to you can keep going.
For professionals
These manuals are written for psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners. Anyone can read a preview; the full text is reserved for practitioners who have submitted proof of their professional status and who hold a professional plan.
Treating prolonged grief in adults: a therapist's manual
A sixteen-session protocol, session by session, based on Shear's complicated grief treatment and on the dual process model: when to treat and when to hold off, personal goals before exposure, repeated revisiting of the death narrative, dismantling avoidance, guilt, rumination, the imaginal conversation. Diagnostic criteria, assessment, common mistakes, worksheets to hand the patient, and full references.
Treating grief in children and adolescents: a therapist's manual
A protocol of fourteen sessions with the child and five with the parent, session by session: when to treat and when to hold off, the three forms of distress, the gradual narrative, guilt, dismantling avoidance, parent-child sharing. Diagnostic criteria, assessment, working with the school, worksheets to hand the child, and full references.
Supporting a person with cancer: a therapist's manual
A ten-session programme for adults with cancer whose distress becomes excessive, lasts or prevents them from living, at any point in the illness, from diagnosis to the end of life. It begins by sorting out expected distress, adjustment disorder, major depression and anxiety disorder, and by looking for what belongs to the doctor. It brings together what has been evaluated in psycho-oncology — problem solving, activation paced to energy, work on worry and fear of recurrence, the principles of meaning-centred therapies and of the CALM approach for advanced disease — and it explicitly assesses suicide risk and the wish to die. Screening, measures, loved ones and children, pointers on end-of-life law to be related to the law of each country, worksheets to hand over and full references.
Neurocognitive disorders: supporting the person and the carer — a therapist's manual
A two-part programme for neurocognitive disorders. For the family carer, eight sessions drawn from the coping strategy programme whose effect on anxiety and depression lasts six years: understanding behaviours, building a plan, communicating differently, working on guilt and on grieving the living, finding moments that count again, preparing for the future. For the person affected at the mild stage, five sessions: their goals, their compensations, their activities, their mood, their wishes. Differential diagnosis, the structured approach to behavioural symptoms, abuse, driving, decision-making capacity, end of life, worksheets to hand over and full references.
Other topics
- Addictions10
- ADHD6
- Anxiety34
- Attention & focus9
- Autism4
- Children & parents35
- Depression & mood25
- Eating disorders4
- Emotions24
- Gender identity1
- Loneliness5
- Longevity5
- Mindfulness1
- Neurocognitive disorders3
- OCD7
- Personality disorders12
- Psychosis8
- Relationships14
- Self-esteem7
- Sleep12
- Stress & burnout10
- Studying3
- Tics & Tourette1
- Trauma10
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