Please feel free to print and distribute any of the following brochures in your community, workplace, church or etc. If you are unable to find a brochure that meets your need please contact us so we may have the opportunity of assisting you further.

NALAG (NSW) Inc

Helping Someone Who is Grieving

This brochure lists examples of significant losses and the grief reactions associated with loss together with some strategies for helping someone who is grieving.

Helping Children After Loss

This brochure explores the difference in a child’s response to loss from an adult. It provides guidelines for talking to children about death and ways of helping the child through the grief.

How to Explain Death to Children

This brochure explains the age related understanding of death for children and gives strategies for talking to children about death.

Helping Children After Disasters

Though children have the same sorts of feelings as adults they show them differently. This brochure explores the grief reactions for children following a disaster and offers coping strategies for helping a child through trauma following a disaster.

Helping a Young Person After Loss

Many emotions occur for the young grieving person including shock, guilt, anger and extreme sadness. Young people, unlike children, are more likely to understand that death is final and permanent. This brochure explores the grief reactions for young people and the changes in behaviour that are likely to occur. The brochure also offers ways of talking to young people about the loss and ways to support a young grieving person.

Coping with Adolescent Grief

This brochure explores the feelings associated with grief and adolescents. It answers the common questions asked by adolescents when they have experienced a loss and provides coping strategies that may be helpful.

Psychological First Aid

This brochure explains the effects of trauma on emotional wellbeing and the effectiveness of Psychological First Aid in promoting a quicker recovery after being involved in or witnessing a traumatic event.

Disaster

Coming to terms with loss following a disaster

This brochure explores the responses to loss following a disaster such as denial, despair, guilt, insomnia confusion and anxiety. It also gives hints for family and friends supporting a disaster survivor.

Trauma  

Trauma is any sudden event that causes a person intense emotion can be classified as trauma. Traumatic events can include any form of accident; a hold up; and sudden or unexpected loss or dealing directly with an unpleasant event.

This brochure explores the reactions likely to occur following trauma and offers coping strategies for the person affected and hints for what to watch out for if you are supported a person following a trauma. 

Sudden or Unexpected Death

For many, because sudden or unexpected deaths are the sort of deaths more often linked with more traumatic ways of dying, a sudden death can catch people out and test what resources they have on hand for coping. This brochure explores the grief reactions associated with sudden or unexpected death such as there being no time for goodbyes and offers self care hints and ways to say goodbye.

Helping Children after Disasters

Though children have the same sorts of feelings as adults they show them differently. This brochure explores the grief reactions for children following a disaster and offers coping strategies for helping a child through trauma following a disaster.

Miscarriage, Stillbirth & Death of a Baby

Miscarriage

The loss of a pregnancy at any stage can have a big impact on you and your partner, and the family. This brochure explores the grief reactions associated with miscarriage and offers coping strategies for you, your partner and for returning home.

Stillbirth

When you know your baby will be stillborn

This brochure explores the grief reactions and stages when you know your baby will be stillborn. The brochure discusses the feelings likely to be present during and after delivery.

Termination of Pregnancy

Grief reactions associated with elective termination of pregnancy

Deciding what to do about an unplanned pregnancy can be difficult and can result in many mixed feelings. This brochure explains the likely grief reactions associated with the decision to terminate a pregnancy and ways of coping.

Termination of Pregnancy

Grief reactions associated with termination of pregnancy for medical reasons

No-one who conceives a pregnancy expects to have to terminate it for medical reasons and for what would normally be a happy event to become one of sadness. This brochure explores the grief reactions associated with the termination of pregnancy for medical reasons and offers strategies for coping.

Death of a Baby

Grief reactions associated with stillbirth and death of a baby

Pregnant couples usually expect birth to be a joyful event, not a sad one. The death of a baby brings many intense feelings. Parents often feel a strong desire to talk about their baby. Men also suffer after the death of a baby and children grieve for their baby sister or brother. This brochure explores the grief reactions associated with stillbirth and the death of a baby.

Supporting Parents

Supporting bereaved parents after the loss of a baby

Grieving the death of a baby or a miscarriage often takes much longer that those who have not experiences such a loss would expect. This brochure explores ways in which you can help support a bereaved parent following the loss of a baby and listst the needs for bereaved families.

SIDS

Grief reactions associated with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

The death of a baby through Sudden Infant Death Syndrome happens out of the blue. The shock and grief can be intense for parents, remaining children, grandparents and other members of the family. This brochure explores the factors affecting how people grieve, ways of remembering the baby, and strategies for coping.

What to tell Children after the Loss of a Baby

This brochure discusses ways in which to talk to children following the death of a baby. This brochure also offers some strategies for mums and dads when parenting under stressful times.

Loss & Grief in the Workplace

Loss & Grief in the Workplace

Coping in the workplace following a loss

These days we spend more and more time in the workplace. After a loss such a retrenchment, separation, divorce, deployment or death of a close relative or friends, the time taken from work is usually not sufficient for a person to recover sufficiently. This brochure explores the difficulties of returning to work, coping in the workplace after a loss and offers co-workers strategies for helping the grieving worker return to work. 

Death in the Workplace

Helpful hints for management following a death in the workplace

People go to work expecting “business as usual” and to go home at the end of the day to their families. The last thing they expect is for a co-worker to die in the workplace, from natural causes, or as a result of a tragic event. This brochure provides helpful hints for management and staff following a death or loss in the workplace.  

Drought

Drought

Coping with loss, grief, stress and change in a rural crisis

Much attention is given to the drought’s impact on the environment – global warming, soil erosion, the risk of flood or fire. But what about the psychological costs? This brochure explores the grief reactions associated with drought and change in a rural crisis. 

Pet Loss

Pet Loss

Grief reactions associated with the loss of an animal

Pets and their human owners often share a special bond. The attachment can be similar to, and as strong as, the feelings we have for our family and friends, and many people see their pet as a member of the family. This brochure explores the grief reactions associated with the loss of a pet and offers strategies and helpful hints for coping. The brochure also touches on the aspects of destroying livestock and the grief reactions associated with such a difficult task.

Later Life

Loss in Later Life

This brochure explores losses and change in later life. Loss of energy, fitness, memory, mental health, sexual attractiveness and desire, sight, hearing or chronic or life threatening illness. The brochure gives self help hints and hints for family and friends. 

Men’s Grief

Men’s Grief

When a mate needs a hand coping with loss and grief

Men and women can often express grief in very different ways, although both are normal. This brochure explores how men cope and what you can do to help a grieving man cope.