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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: "Grief and bereavement and self-care in nursing", "Grief in a palliative care context", "Grief and bereavement organisation practice models", "Bridging research and practice", "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 14, Issue 3, Summer 2011

Grief of First Nation Peoples

Guest Editors: Beverley Raphael & Pat Delaney
Grief and the American Indian

Gerry Cox & Andrea Sullivan
  First Nations Australians -
  Surviving through adversities and
  malignant grief

  Shane Merritt
Integrating personal and professional experiences:
Seven Phases to Integrating
Loss and Grief 

Rosemary Wanganeen

 
 

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