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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.

Past contributors have included John R. Jordan, Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut, Robert Neimeyer, William Worden, Kenneth Doka, George Bonnano, Holly G. Prigerson and many more.

The journal is published three times annually in Autumn (April/May), Winter (August) and Summer (December), with a central theme for each issue.

Upcoming themes will include: 'Bridging research and practice', 'Grief in a support group context', 'Grief of missing persons', 'Displacement and isolation: The grief of immigrant, refugee and Indigenous peoples', 'Death of a child or adolescent', 'Creative expressions of grief',  'Creative expressions of grief', 'Companion animal loss', 'Death of a parent: Reflections on an aging population', 'Death of an adult child', and many more.

The journal will be of great benefit to mental health practitioners, tertiary institutions, teaching organisations and occupations related to loss and grief. 

The current issue:

Volume 15, Issue 3, Summer 2012

Grief and bereavement services: Organisational profiles

Guest Editor: Ernest Hunter
Cruse Bereavement Care - Somewhere to turn when someone dies

Debbie Kerslake
  The Australian Centre for Grief
  and Bereavement: The interface
  of bereavement education,
  research and counselling

  Christopher Hall
Merimna: The Society for the Care of Children and Families Facing Illness and Death

Danai Papadatou
Working well with those bereaved by suicide: The practice experience of Support After Suicide in Melbourne

Martin Ryan
  Judi's House: Integrating research
  and practice in a
  community-based bereavement
  centre for children and families
  Brook Griese, Ali Giusto &
  Louise Silvern

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