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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), Winter (August) and Summer (December), with a central theme for each issue.

Upcoming themes will include: "Social aspects of grief","Displacement and isolation: The grief of immigrant, refugee and indigenous peoples", "Death of a child or adolescent", "Grief in a palliative care context", "Creative expressions of grief", "Bereavement in a palliative care context", "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 13, Issue 2, Winter 2010

Grief, Loss and Disasters:
2009 Victorian Bushfires

Editor: Christopher Hall
The 2009 Victorian Bushfires: Psychosocial Responses

Brigid Clarke, Lothar Wahl,
& Genelle Ryan
  The Interface Between Trauma and
  Grief Following The Victorian
  Bushfires: Clinical Interventions
  Beyond the Crisis

  Vivienne Bateman
Disasters and Remembrance: A Journey to a New Place

J. F. Richardson
Shaping Bereavement Services to Meet the Needs of Bereaved People Following the 2009 Victorian Bushfires

Anne Giljohann, Annie Norrish,
Marg Bailey, Colin Charles,
Simon Djurdjevic, Gill Moseley,
Nerida Melsmith, Maria Smart,
& Angela Wallis

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