Thursday, April 21, 2005
The tsunami
The latest edition of Bereavement Care contains an article on bereavement support at Heathrow Airport after the tsunami. It is written by Debbie Kerslake, Head of Service Planning and Development, Cruse Bereavement Care, London. It describes the services that have been set up in the UK to support those affected. (Bereavement Care 2005 v 24 no 1 pages 3-6). There is also a useful set of weblinks on psychosocial support for tsunami survivors on
p 15 of this issue of Bereavement Care.
The above items can be supplied by the library at St Christopher's - if anyone would like a copy of a workbook to assist children to help express their feelings after the tsunami, please also conact me d.brady@stchristophers.org.uk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4416267.stm - this describes the work of Dr Jones, a child psychiatrist with the International Medical Corps (IMC) working with children affected by the tsunami. She uses puppets to help them express their feelings.
p 15 of this issue of Bereavement Care.
The above items can be supplied by the library at St Christopher's - if anyone would like a copy of a workbook to assist children to help express their feelings after the tsunami, please also conact me d.brady@stchristophers.org.uk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4416267.stm - this describes the work of Dr Jones, a child psychiatrist with the International Medical Corps (IMC) working with children affected by the tsunami. She uses puppets to help them express their feelings.
Friday, April 01, 2005
Loss of homes and homelands
Read Peter
Returning to nothing. The meaning of lost places
Cambride and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press 1996
This may not be a new book but it is worth bringing to the attention of anyone considering issues of loss and grief. Feelings about lost or destroyed places rouse our deepest emotions and may be entangled in grief over the death of a loved person.
This book,which originated in Australia, describes various scenarios of loss with regard to place - migration from other countries and the pain of return, for example returning to Croatia after the civil war there, Darwin after a cyclone, the flooding of towns to make a dam, the loss of a house due to fire, "slum" clearance which is of course the loss of a neighbourhood to some people.
There is also quite simply the loss associated with loss of "home" -and home can be described in many different ways from a house to a community to a much loved view from a window.
Returning to nothing. The meaning of lost places
Cambride and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press 1996
This may not be a new book but it is worth bringing to the attention of anyone considering issues of loss and grief. Feelings about lost or destroyed places rouse our deepest emotions and may be entangled in grief over the death of a loved person.
This book,which originated in Australia, describes various scenarios of loss with regard to place - migration from other countries and the pain of return, for example returning to Croatia after the civil war there, Darwin after a cyclone, the flooding of towns to make a dam, the loss of a house due to fire, "slum" clearance which is of course the loss of a neighbourhood to some people.
There is also quite simply the loss associated with loss of "home" -and home can be described in many different ways from a house to a community to a much loved view from a window.
