Support and Therapy Web sites

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American Art Therapy Association
www.arttherapy.org
Extensive listings of art therapy publications, subscription details for the Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, information about art therapy legislation, and news stories.

American Music Therapy Association
www.musictherapy.org
This organization offers information on career opportunities and academic programs for music therapists, a list of music therapy listservs, professional publications, and details on how to find a music therapist near you.

Art Therapy on the Web
www.sofer.com/art-therapy
Contains information on art therapy, a discussion link, and interesting articles about art therapy.

American Association of Pastoral Counselors
www.aapc.org
Pastoral Counselors are certified mental health professionals with in-depth training in spiritual matters who can help counsel dying patients and their families and friends.

C.E. Koop Institute: Healing and the Arts
http://koop.dartmouth.edu/programs_arts.html
This program at Dartmouth College's Medical School explores the relationship between the creative arts and healing with projects ranging from an online gallery of artwork to poetry and prose readings.

Comfort Baskets
www.comfortbaskets.com/
Information about our sensitive, helpful and elegant gift baskets personally created and designed by a Ph.D. grief specialist for people going through a life challenge or to extend condolences. Site also includes many resources and links (including an extensive bibliography) addressing all aspects of grief, loss, adjustment and transition.

The Compassionate Friends
www.compassionatefriends.org/
The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.

Death & Dying - Where Life Surrounds Death
www.death-dying.com/
Our mission at Death and Dying is to provide you with comfort, support, and education about issues surrounding death at times of apprehension, confusion, and sorrow as well as at times of understanding, growth, and serenity.

Good Grief Rituals
www.nwlink.com/~gdgrief/
Good Grief Rituals offers tools and rituals for dealing with change and loss.

GriefLink
www.grieflink.asn.au/frameset.html
An easy-to-use Web site developed by the National Association for Loss and Grief in Australia. Some of the information is specific to Australia, but most of the information is relevant to anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one or who is supporting someone else in grief.

GriefNet
www.rivendell.org/
GriefNet is an Internet community of persons dealing with grief, death, and major loss.

Grief Resources
www.concentric.net/~Lismith/GRIEF.HTM
This site offers a collection of reading materials that may be purchased to help individuals cope with the loss of someone special.

Growth House, Inc.
www.growthhouse.org/
Growth House is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that offers a broad range of online information on end-of-life care: from hospice handbooks to sites that give tips on explaining death to children.

Friends in Deed
www.lycos.com/friends/home.html
Since 1991, Friends has helped transform many thousands of lives through their programs and services. They support anyone with a life-threatening illness, their family, friends, and caregivers... anyone dealing with grief and loss... and all those facing critical life challenges.

Hygeia
www.hygeia.org/
An online journal for pregnancy and neonatal loss.

Journey of Hearts: A Healing Place in CyberSpace
www.journeyofhearts.org/
Inspirational Web site designed to broaden the understanding of the death experience as well as spiritually uplift those have had life altering experiences.

Medical Humanities
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html
This Web site, run by the New York University School of Medicine, is an excellent resource for non-scientific literature, films, and art related to medicine, recovery, illness, and death. A search engine lets you find everything from prose by Alice Walker to poetry by John Donne.

Meditations
www.midbio.org/bartholome.htm
Read an excerpt from terminal cancer patient Dr. William Bartholeme's "Meditations," a series of essays on Bartholeme's experiences "living in the light of death" that is featured in "On Our Own Terms."

Music Therapy Links
http://users.erols.com/leopold/Music.htm
This is an extensive list of individual Web pages, Web site, and organizations, as well as articles related to music therapy.

Safe Crossings
www.providence.org/safecrossings/
This Web site is devoted to an "anticipatory grief and bereavement program" run by the Hospice of Seattle. It provides activities and information directed at parents, children, and professionals in a well-organized and easy-to-use format.

The Shiva Foundation
www.goodgrief.org
The Shiva Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to developing resources and offering support in the grieving process.

The SIDS Alliance
www.sidsalliance.org
The SIDS Alliance is a national, non-profit, voluntary health organization dedicated to the support of SIDS families, education and research.

Tom Golden's Crisis, Grief and Healing
www.webhealing.com/1grief.html
This site is a place where men and women can discuss, chat, or simply browse to understand and honor the many different paths to heal strong emotions.

WidowNet
www.fortnet.org/WidowNet/
A Web site for those who have lost a spouse; contains a lengthy list of articles on topics from grief to remarriage, and links to support groups and humor Web site.