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BrochuresPrintable brochures which offer information in relation to loss, grief, trauma and bereavement. Bereavement Buddy E-NewsletterFree E-Newsletter which offers a current lead article addressing loss, grief, trauma, bereavement or depression issues. This is also your way of keeping up to date with NALAG's services - training, seminars, education and other events.Professional publication containing up to date journal articles on loss, grief, trauma and bereavement. Seminar Presentation Slides and Other Resources Recent seminar presentation slides available for free download.
Grief Support - What is NALAG? NALAG is the National Association for Loss & Grief (NSW) Inc and was formed following the 1977 Granville Train Disaster. This brochure explains our mission, services and programs.
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.
Children, Young People & Adolescents 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. 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. 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.
Disaster, Trauma, Sudden & Unexpected Death 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 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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.
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 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 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 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.
Suicide Suicide Grief reactions associated with a death by suicide Someone you love has chosen to end their life and you are left to deal with the consequences: the pain of unbearable sadness; dismay and confusion; empty feelings of abandonment; anger, guilt and the relentless persistence of unanswerable questions. This brochure explores the initial and later reactions associated with a death by suicide and explores the legal issues involved.
NALAG Suicide Network (NSN) The NALAG Suicide Network (NSN)....
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The Bereavement Buddy E-Newsletter is your link to keeping up to date with the NALAG Centre for Loss & Grief Dubbo’s continued commitment to Grief Support and Education.
The Bereavement Buddy is an E-newsletter published by the NALAG Centre for Loss & Grief in Dubbo 3 times per year. First published in 2008 The Bereavement Buddy provides NALAG Members and the wider community with a featured professional journal article and a detailed list of upcoming support and education provided by NALAG in NSW. This E-Newsletter is FREE of charge can be downloaded here.
Latest Edition
Play Therapy with Children in Crisis The Bereavement Buddy Issue 3 2008
This issue focuses on play therapy and the use of play in counseling young children. Nancy Boyd Webb Is a leading authority on Play Therapy and its use with children who have experienced loss and traumatic bereavement.
Helicopter Parents The Bereavement Buddy Issue 3, July 2008
This issue features a an article by Louise Waterson about Helicopter Parents. The article which interviews leading child clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller and touches on his work in the field, is an interesting read about bubble wrapping your children and offers hints for creating resilience families.
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