Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement

The journal Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement has been published by the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement since 1998, and encompasses both academic and applied aspects of grief and bereavement. The journal will be of great benefit to mental health practitioners, tertiary institutions, teaching organisations and occupations related to loss and grief. The journal is published with a central theme for each issue. Themes covered to date have focussed on:

• Grief and bereavement: Profiling recent Australian bereavement research
• Aboriginal grief and loss
• Children and grief
• HIV/AIDS and grief
• Trauma and grief
• Suicide and grief
• Disability and grief
• The interface between self-help and professionals
• Disability and grief
• Creative approaches to loss and grief
• The grief of separation and divorce
• Developments in loss and grief research and practice
• Rituals
• Families and grief
• Grief of children and adolescents
• Grief of domestic violence and sexual abuse
• Loss, grief and the older person
• Grief and acquired illness
• Support groups
  

Journal Subscription - 2006

Membership within Victoria

Members of the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement will automatically receive a copy of Grief Matters (These rates include the GST and cover the period 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006):

 

Organisational Membership	$159.50
Individual Membership	$88.00
Student/Concessional Membership	$66.00

Journal Subscription outside Victoria

Subscriptions to Grief Matters are available to individuals, organisations, institutions and libraries outside Victoria (These rates include the GST and cover the period 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006):

 

Individual Membership	$77.00
Institutions/Organisations/Librarie	$126.50

Journal Subscription outside Australia

Subscriptions to Grief Matters are available to individuals, organisations, institutions and libraries outside Australia (These rates are in Australian Dollars and cover the period 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006):

Individual Membership	$90.00
Institutions/Organisations/Libraries	$140.00

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Special offer for back issues of 'Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement'. Price (includes GST): $237.60 for all 24 issues Normally $18.70 per issue This offer of purchasing back issues of 'Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement' at half the normal price is only available for purchases of all 24 issues - from April 1998 to Summer 2005). Themes of back issues are: · Men and grief April 1998 · Aboriginal grief and loss September 1998 · Adolescent grief December 1998 · HIV/AIDS and grief May 1999 · Trauma and grief Winter 1999 · Suicide and grief Summer 1999 · Relationship between self-help groups and professional groups Autumn 2000 · Disability and grief Winter 2000 · Creative approaches to loss and grief Summer 2000 · Grief of separation and divorce Autumn 2001 · New developments in bereavement research and practice Winter 2001 · Rituals Summer 2001 · Families and Grief Autumn 2002 · Grief of children and adolescents Winter 2002 · Grief of domestic violence and sexual abuse Summer 2002   Download a back issues order form

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Please contact the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, on 03 9265 2100 or by e-mail at griefmatters@grief.org.au for a Membership/Subscription form or for further information.

Previous editions of Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement.

	Summer 2003 Volume 5 (3)   Child abuse and family violence: The losses for children, by Neerosh Mudaly and Joe Tucci, Australians Against Violence, Victoria   “ All you do is look back and regret” – Disenfranchised grief as an obstacle for recovery from abuse, by Margot Scott & Silvia Weisz, Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Centre, Victoria   The loss and grief of the survivors of domestic violence and child abuse, by Noel Macnamara, Private Practice, Victoria   Book Reviews Abstracts
	Winter 2002 Volume 5 (2) The club no-one wants to join: A dozen things I have learned from grieving children and adolescents, by Donna Schuurman, The Dougy Centre, USA   The laughter and the tears: Getting behind the mask in adolescent grief, by Julie Dunsmore, Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW   The Sudden and unexpected death of a sibling and its impact on surviving children and adolescents: A family perspective, by Carolyn Biggs, Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW   Book Reviews Abstracts
	Autumn 2002 Volume 5 (1) Families making sense of loss, by Janice Winchester Nadeau, Minnesota Human Development Consultants, Minnesota, USA   Shared grief: A family affair, by David Kissane, Palliative Medicine, University of Melbourne & Centre for Palliative Care, St. Vincent’s Hospital and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Victoria   Disenfranchised grief in stepfamilies, by Irene Gerrard, Family Therapist in Private Practice, and Doncare Commumity Care and Counselling Centre, Victoria   Book Reviews Abstracts

Summer 2001 Volume 4 (3) Beyond the Funeral, by Philip Bachelor, Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park, Victoria   The importance of rituals in coping with grief, by Geoffrey Glassock, Life Change Management, NSW   Reconstructing meaning in the wake of loss: Creating ‘meaning full’ ritual, by Christopher Hall, Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, Victoria   Book Reviews Abstracts

Winter 2001 Volume 4 (2) Bereavement research directions, (Beverley Raphael, Centre for Mental Health, NSW Health Department, NSW)   The future of grief research and practice (Paul C Rosenblatt, Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, USA)   Challenging the paradigm: New understandings of grief (Kenneth Doka, Professor of Gerontology, The College of New Rochelle, USA)   Book Reviews Abstracts

Autumn 2001 Volume 4 (1) Children who lose a parent to divorce and children who lose a parent to death (J William Worden, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)   The grieving process in separation and divorce, by Tony Gee, Relationships Australia, Victoria   Grief and suffering: Separation and divorce and the Family Court (Sylvia Martin, Family Court of Australia, NSW)   Marital quality, rates of divorce and bereavement: What does the research say? Divorce following bereavement (Jacqueline Tudball, Australian Institute of Family Studies,Victoria)   Book Reviews   Abstracts

Summer 2001 Volume 3 (3) Volts of connection: The arts as shock therapy (Sandra Bertman, Program in Medical Humanities and the Arts in Health Care, University of Masachusetts Medical School, USA)   What does group music therapy offer to bereaved young people: A rounded approach to the grieving adolescent (Katrina Skewes, University of Melbourne, Registered Music Therapist, Victoria)   Fantasy and fun: Creative experiential therapy (Joan Ennis, Counsellor and Psychotherapist, Victoria) Book Reviews   Abstracts

Winter 2000 Volume 3 (2) Editorial (Pat Swan) Grief, trauma and parenting children with disability (Elizabeth J Bruce, Counselling Psychologist, Victoria)   Exiled grief (Sandra F Dowling, Department of Psychiatry of Disability, St George’s Hospital, London)   Grief and disability: Whose grief is it? (Linda Buchanan, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK)   The many faces of grief locked within the ‘hidden generation’ (Mary Henley-Collopy, Victoria) Book Reviews Abstracts

Autumn 2000 Volume 3 (1) Editorial (Dr. Geoffrey Glassock)   How self-help and professional help helps (Dr. Dennis Klass)   Building relationships between loss and grief self-help organisations and health professionals (B. Anne Giljohann, Mary Hansen and Kirsten Wilkens)   Self-help and volunteers (B. Anne Giljohann Ed.)   Book Reviews Abstracts

Summer 1999 Volume 2 (3) Editorial (Dr. Judith Murray)   Intervening in suicide: Do personal or professional factors make a difference (Dr. Robert Neimeyer, Dr. Barry Fortner & Diane Melby)   The truth hurts: The dilemmas of supporting children bereaved by suicide (Kerrie Noonan)   The contribution of the self-help support group experience to the survival of the suicide-bereaved (Jon Stebbins & Sue Stebbins)   Book Reviews Abstracts

Summer 1999 Volume 2 (2) Editorial (Christopher Hall)   Trauma and grief (Emeritus Prof. Beverley Raphael)   Finding the trauma in loss and the loss in trauma (Dr. Robyn Robinson)   Working with children and adolescents following trauma (Michelle Roberts)   Book Reviews Abstracts

May 1999 Volume 2 (1) Editorial (Christopher Hall)   Grief and HIV/AIDS: An Australian story (Kim Benton)   HIV/AIDS grief and mourning (Sandra Klein)   HIV/AIDS and the coronial system from a forensic counselling perspective (Gina Paleologo, Tony Purcell & John Drayton)   Book Reviews Abstracts

December 1998 Volume 1 (3) Editorial (Prof. Beverley Raphael)   Looking at adolescent grief: The need for the proper spectacles (Prof. David Balk)   Caring for families affected by infant death: Evaluating an intervention (Dr. Judith Murray)   Children and grief: A paediatric oncology perspective (Dr. Michael M. Stevens)   Book Reviews Abstracts

September 1998 Volume 1 (2) Editorial (Prof. Beverley Raphael)   The legacy of colonisation (Dr. Jane McKendrick and Ms. Marjorie Thorpe)   Grief and health (Pat Swan)   Loss and recovery (Prof. Ernest Hunter)   Book Reviews Abstracts

April 1998 Volume 1 (1) Editorial (Prof. Beverley Raphael)   Different losses - Different grief (Assoc. Prof. Warwick Middleton)   Family grief therapy: An empirically derived model (Prof. David Kissane)   Older men and bereavement: Symptoms of grief (Dr. Gerard Byrne)   Book Reviews Abstracts