Psychological First Aid

NALAG News June 2010 

This issue focuses on Psychological First Aid as a disaster response. Other features in this issue...

• Healing Emotional and Psychological Distress 

• Forgotten Step in Attachment

• Helping Dispel 5 Common Myths About Grief

• Sudden Death Grieving Special Types of Losses

• The Importance of Telling (and Listening) to Stories of Loss

When Parents Die

NALAG News November 2009 

This issue focuses on the grief reactions associated with the loss of a parent. Other features in this issue.... 

• Grief and Loss Faced by Our Children

• Children and Adolescents Understanding of Death

• Is someone close to you bereaved by suicide?

• The Powerful Tool of Music

• How Families Mourn Together

• Coping with the Loss of a Newborn Baby

• My Grief Rights

Discovering Hope

NALAG News July 2009 

This issue focuses on the importance of hope after loss. Other features in this issue.... 

• The Obstacle Science Could Not Conquer

• Continuing Bonds

• Funeral Ceremonies and Rituals

• Making Meaningful Memories

• A Space for Grief

Celebrating Christmas - Ways of Remembering

NALAG News December 2008 

This issue focuses on ways of remembering loved ones at Christmas. Other features in this issue.... 

• Loss, Change & Grief - Basics About the Holiday Blues

• How to Take Advantage of the Holidays

• What to Tell Children About Grief

• Dealing with Adolescents Who Self Harm During Grief

• Helping Children with Funerals

• Looking fro Laughter in Not So Funny Situations

Ways of Coping – Creatively Expressing Grief

NALAG News August 2008 

This issue focuses on the creative ways and techniques that can be used to assist grieving adults and children. Other features in this issue.... 

• Music Therapy in Bereavement

• Find a Voice for Grief

• The art of Grieving

• Turning Sadness into a Celebration

• Using Popular Music in Therapy

When Disaster Strikes

NALAG News May 2008 

This issue focuses on the grief reactions associated with disasters, trauma and helping our children following a disaster. This issue commemorates NALAG’s formation in 1977 following the Granville Train Disaster. The lead article by Dr Geoff Glassock, Vice President of NALAG (NSW) considers the physical and psychological impact of natural and manmade disasters from a grief perspective.

Other features in this issue....

• Helping our children – sharing their worries and concerns in troublesome times

• Dealing with sudden, accidental and traumatic death

• What to tell children about terrorist bombings

• Coping in the aftermath of witnessing a major disaster

• So we said Sorry

The Grieving Process in Separation and Divorce

NALAG News August 2007

This issue focuses on the grief reactions associated with separation and divorce. Tony Gee, Family and Child Mediator – Relationships Australia, in the featured article The Grieving Process in Separation and Divorce, says that the grieving process associated with divorce is complex and one that is generally not well understood. This article discusses the distinctive features of grief in divorce and focuses on the different experiences for initiator and non-initiator. Other features in this issue....

• Children and Separation/Divorce: Helping your child cope

• Principles of working with traumatized children

• The progression of depression

• Using movies to move through grief

Men, Grief and Ritual

NALAG News December 2006 

This issue focuses on the grief reactions for men. Tom Golden, therapist and author of Swallowed by a Snake is renowned for his writing on men and grief. In this extract he looks at the rituals associated with grief and in particular men and grief. Other features in this issue....

• Greece – rituals

• Disenfranchised Grief – Managing the Pain of Pet Loss

• Painting through Grief

• Anniversaries

• Four Years on

• Remembering the Babies

• Support for the farming community

• Surviving the upheaval of Grief at Christmas

The Flute Player

NALAG News April 2006

This issue features an excerpt from Tom Golden’s book Swallowed by a Snake. Tom Golden is a therapist and author and his book explains the grief process as “a snake that wants you to feel that is it hopeless, that you are never getting out, that your pain is endless”. Other features in this issue....

• Using creative activities as intervention of grieving children

• Trauma, Loss, Crisis Intervention – The first few days

• Emotional & Psychological Trauma

• People affected by natural disasters, Terrorist attacks

• Grief, Loss and the Quest for Meaning

• Using drawing as intervention for traumatised children

Other Issues

April 2006 - Using Creative Activities as Intervention for Grieving Children

June 2005 - Translating compassion into psychosocial aid after the tsunami

December 2004 - Applying the Breaks – road to recovery from trauma

July 2004 - Do real men cry? 

March 2004 - The Trauma Trade 

September 2003 - The Big Dry....hanging in there... Grief & the Drought

February 2003 - The kindness of strangers, the love of family and listening to the “lived experience”

April 2002 - Shattered Lives, Broken Dreams, Tenacious Spirits and the Power of Community

July 2001- Children the Forgotten Mourners