Expertise
  • Bereavement
  • Loss and grieving in the context of family
  • Death of a child
  • Infant and pregnancy loss
  • Loss and meaning making
  • Stress and resilience in the family
  • Cross national research
  • Qualitative research
Degrees
PhD, Purdue University, 1987
MS, Northern Illinois University, 1982
BA, Northern Illinois University, 1971
Keywords
social sciences family death or dying (mental or social aspects) disaster studies suicide applied psychology social psychology
Associations
Association for Death Education and Counseling
International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement
National Council on Family Relations