Coping with Grief

by Mal McKissock and Dianne McKissock

Third Edition - based on the ABC Radio Series

Coping with Grief is a small, yet powerful book.  This book is a wonderful resource that offers information useful for those who are facing grief and those who work with them.

The book describes

• normal grief,
• managing anniversaries and special dates,
• physical and emotional reactions,
• the funeral,
• gender difference in grief,
• children and grief,
• sexuality and grief,
• consequences of bereavement,
• support teams,
• self-help, and
• community education.

Mal McKissock is a Palliative Care and Bereavement Education Consultant.  He began his career in the health field as a nurse in 1965.  Ten years later, while working in a community health centre, he began to work specifically with dying, and bereaved people.  His experience in this area was extended by a period as Deputy Director of Nursing at a 100 bed public hospital which specialised in the care of the terminally ill.

Mal is now well known and respected for his expertise in the care of dying people and in bereavement counselling.  His unique ability to teach this special area of health care has been appreciated by a wide variety of professionals and volunteers throughout Australia.  He was one of the founders of The National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG) of which he was national president.

Dianne McKissock is a sociologist, psychotherapist and relationship counsellor whose special interested during the past 15 years has been in the area of grief and loss, particular as it affects children.  She has co-authored a number of books and articles on bereavement.

Paperback

64 pages