Games and Bereavement

Games and Bereavement
Author: Sabine Harrer
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2019-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839444152

How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by looking at five videogames and carrying out a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer highlights possible connections between grief and videogames, arguing that game design may help make difficult personal feelings tangible. After a brief literary review of grief concepts and videogame theory, the book deep-dives into examples of tragic inter-character relationships from videogame history. Building on these examples, the book presents a case study on pregnancy loss as a potential grief experience that can be validated through game design dialogue.

Why Did You Die?

Why Did You Die?
Author: Erika Leeuwenburgh
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1572246049

When a loved one dies, children are faced with a kaleidoscope of feelings, thoughts, and questions. Struggling with these issues can be overwhelming without guidance, support, and creative forms of expression. This bereavement book contains simple, effective activities to help children and parents communicate about death and the grieving process. Through these activities, children will learn how to grow and thrive after the loss of a loved one.

Healing Activities for Children in Grief

Healing Activities for Children in Grief
Author: Gay McWhorter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780976303503

"Activities suitable for support groups with grieving children, preteens and teens"--Cover.

The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book

The Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book
Author: Patricia Morrissey
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1617221872

Based on Alan Wolfelt's six needs of mourning and written to pair with Companioning the Grieving Child, this thorough guide provides hundreds of hands-on activities tailored for grieving children in three age groups: preschool, elementary, and teens. Through the use of readings, games, discussion questions, and arts and crafts, caregivers can help grieving young people acknowledge the reality of the death, embrace the pain of the loss, remember the person who died, develop a new self-identity, search for meaning, and accept support. Sample activities include grief sock puppets, expression bead bracelets, the nurturing game, and writing an autobiographical poem. Activities are presented in an easy-to-follow format, and each has a goal, an objective, a sequential description of the activity, and a list of needed materials.

Death at the Ballpark

Death at the Ballpark
Author: Robert M. Gorman
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0786479329

When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game's history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking study provides the known details for 150 years of game-related deaths, identifies contributing factors and discusses resulting changes to game rules, protective equipment, crowd control and stadium structures and grounds. Topics covered include pitched and batted-ball fatalities, weather and field condition accidents, structural failures, fatalities from violent or risky behavior and deaths from natural causes.

Game Play

Game Play
Author: Charles E. Schaefer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2004-03-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0471437336

The long-awaited revision of the only book on game play available for mental health professionals Not only is play a pleasurable, naturally occurring behavior found in humans, it is also a driving force in our development. As opposed to the unstructured play often utilized in psychotherapy, game playing invokes more goal-directed behavior, carries the benefits of interpersonal interaction, and can perform a significant role in the adaptation to one's environment. This landmark, updated edition of Game Play explores the advantages of using games in clinical- and school-based therapeutic interventions with children and adolescents. This unique book shows how playing games can promote socialization, encourage the development of identity and self-esteem, and help individuals master anxiety-while setting the stage for deeper therapeutic intervention in subsequent sessions. Game Play Therapeutic Use of Childhood Games Second Edition Features: * New chapters on games in family therapy and games for specific disorders * Techniques and strategies for using game play to enhance communication, guidance, and relationships with clients * The different types of therapeutic games, elaborating on their various clinical applications

Bereavement and Support

Bereavement and Support
Author: Marylou Hughes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317763556

In the early 1970s bereavement support groups were almost unknown. However, the obvious benefits of the group process for recovery - the mutual support and understanding that helps mourners to a better outlook - has created a demand for people who can organise and facilitate these groups. Addressing the basis and need for support groups for the bereaved, this book presents a theoretical overview, examines benefits and variety of support groups structured and unstructural, special populations and specifics for initiating, organising and running them, such as publicity. It differs from other treatments in that theory and practice are moulded into a how-to approach, with all procedures presented equally for the widest range of choices. Also included is a comprehensive book bibliography for adults, children, children's helpers and parents. This text is intended to be of use as a resource for professionals in the field of thanatology, including psychologists, psychiatrists, gerontologists, therapists, group counsellors, hospice workers, educators, funeral home directors, home health employees, hospital staff and volunteer organisations that work with survivors.

Bereavement

Bereavement
Author: Colin Murray Parkes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317850823

The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of bereavement but that an understanding of grief can help the bereaved to realise that they are not alone in their experience. Long recognised as the most authoritative work of its kind, this new edition has been revised and extended to take into account recent research findings on both sides of the Atlantic. Parkes and Prigerson include additional information about the different circumstances of bereavement including traumatic losses, disasters, and complicated grief, as well as providing details on how social, religious, and cultural influences determine how we grieve. Bereavement provides guidance on preparing for the loss of a loved one, and coping after they have gone. It also discusses how to identify the minority in whom bereavement may lead to impairment of physical and/or mental health and how to ensure they get the help they need. This classic text will continue to be of value to the bereaved themselves, as well as the professionals and friends who seek to help and understand them.

Missing Mommy

Missing Mommy
Author: Rebecca Cobb
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0805095071

Daddy comforts and reassures a very young boy after Mommy dies.