Helping Professionals to Provide Bereavement Support

AtaLoss is committed to helping professionals to offer bereavement support to people who have experienced the death of someone important to them. Funeral directors, health care professionals and clergy repeatedly tell us they would like to know how to better support people when someone has died.

Our unique bereavement signposting website - this website, www.ataloss.org – aims to provide the full range of support services and information, to provide holistic support for wellbeing and add value to anyone’s work. See our gold standard for signposting here.

You can direct to AtaLoss.org for free by using our logo. Describe us as ‘AtaLoss.org: UK wide bereavement signposting and information website’.

We also offer training for professionals in various forms, including for schools and youth groups so they can provide better bereavement support to young people who experience loss. See our training.

Below are useful articles and information to help you as you support bereaved people.

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Experiencing Grief? - Move More for Your Mental Health

Experiencing Grief? Movement can ease emotional pain, reduce stress, restore routine and foster connection, offering comfort and healing for those navigating bereavement.

Mother’s Day - Grief When a Parent Died

Like with many other days in the calendar, Mother’s Day can be very hard when we are grieving and an occasion which can trigger pain even many years after a death. Here are some things to consider for coping when a parent died.

Physical Manifestation of Grief - Understanding How Grief Affects the Brain

This article explores the physical manifestation of grief. Grief not only impacts our emotions but also brings significant changes to the brain, affecting memory, stress levels, and overall well-being.

Dying for Beginners - The Dying Process

This video explains the dying process very gently so that we understand it better and can have conversations with friends and family about it.

Traumatic Grief & - Bereavement Support

Trauma refers to the way that some distressing events are so extreme or shocking that they overwhelm a person’s ability to cope, resulting in lasting negative impact. This article contains information to help you understand and respond to people with traumatic grief.

What Is Effective - Bereavement Support?

This article explores effective bereavement support, how we can learn to offer it, and what it looks like.

Children and Young People

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Funerals: Everything a - Young Person Needs to Know

A useful film and book to help any young person understand funerals (burial and cremation) and decide whether to attend and what role they can play in saying goodbye to a loved one.

Baby Loss - and Grief

Losing a baby is one of the most devastating experiences a person can go through. This article covers how to understand the impact of baby loss and how to help those who have gone through it.

Losing a Child - and Grieving

Grieving the death of a child, of any age, brings heartbreak and devastation. This article was written by Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds who set up the Good Grief Project following the death of their son, Josh.

Young People and - Traumatic Grief and Bereavement

In traumatic grief and bereavement, children and young people experience very strong emotions because of the meaning they make of the death.

Five Tips for Supporting - a Grieving Young Person

Here are five tips for supporting young people who are bereaved.

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Bereavement and Loss - in the LGBTQ+ Community

Switchboard explores the unique challenges LGBTQ+ people may face in bereavement, including disenfranchised grief, family estrangement and exclusion from mourning rituals.

Facing Father's Day - when a Father Died

Has your father died? The loss of a father, whether recent or long ago, can make Father’s Day especially painful. We offer some thoughts for how you might take care of yourself around Father’s Day.

International Day of Families - Adults Bereaved as Children

Reflecting on the International Day of Families, Mandy Gosling, AtaLoss Subject Matter Expert considers the challenges adults bereaved as children face.

Surviving Easter - as a Widow

Easter, like Christmas, is one of those times of year that can hit especially hard when you’re grieving. There’s the build-up, the family traditions, the messages of hope and renewal…and yet, for many of us (especially widows), it just highlights what’s missing.

Coping with Grief on Valentine’s Day - The Death of a Partner

For a lot of people Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate love, romance and togetherness. But if you’ve lost a partner, the day can bring a renewed sense of grief and loneliness. This article explores coping with grief on Valentine’s Day.

Bereavement Support - in Older Age

Although losing a loved one is perhaps more common in later life, this doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. If someone you know has been bereaved, there are some simple things you can do to provide bereavement support.

Offering Bereavement Support - to Grieving University Students

Supporting young adults as they navigate being away from home at University and providing them with bereavement support can be challenging. Here our Founder, Yvonne Tulloch provides quick tips on how to do so.

Learning Disabilities - and Bereavement Support

This briefing is produced by Brake, the road safety charity. It aims to raise awareness of how people with learning disabilities experience grief, and provides advice on how to offer them bereavement support.

Autistic People and - Bereavement

There is not a great deal of research on how autistic people deal with bereavement. However there is useful advice available that can help us support anyone with autism, whatever their age.

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