Grief and Loss

The bereavement experience of adolescents and early young adults with cancer: Peer and parental loss due to death is associated with increased risk of adverse psychological outcomes  L.M. Johnson et al., PLoS One, August 2017

Coping on Father's Day without Dad  M. Silver, Shots: Health News from NPR, June 16, 2013

Cortisol response to social stress in parentally bereaved youth  L.J. Dietz et al., Biological Psychiatry, February 2013

Distinctiveness of symptoms of prolonged grief, depression, and post-traumatic stress in bereaved children and adolescents  M. Spuij et al., European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, December 2012

Effects of the Family Bereavement Program on academic outcomes, educational expectations and job aspirations 6 years later: The mediating role of parenting and youth mental health problems  E.N. Schoenfelder et al., Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, February 2015

Longitudinal effects of parental bereavement on adolescent developmental competence  D.A. Brent et al., Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, September 2012

Longitudinal mediators of a randomized prevention program effect on cortisol for youth from parentally bereaved families  L.J. Luecken et al., Prevention Science, April 2014

A mock funeral aims to help students bury their pain  L. Meckler, Washington Post, May 15, 2019

Psychiatric symptoms in bereaved versus nonbereaved youth and young adults: A longitudinal epidemiological study  J.B. Kaplow et al., Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, November 2010

Quality of social relationships and the development of depression in parentally bereaved youth  E.N. Schoenfelder et al., Journal of Youth and Adolescence, January 2011

Six-year follow-up of a preventive intervention for parentally bereaved youths: A randomized controlled trial  I. Sandler et al., Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, October 2010