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Death walks into a bar: Humor and profanity in advance care planning messages
Christian R. Seiter & Zac D. Johnson
Published online: 02 May 2024
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The protective role of sense of coherence in resident physicians facing secondary trauma due to patient death in intensive care—A qualitative inquiry
Gillie Gabay
Published online: 02 May 2024
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Longitudinal examination of cognitive function in older adults after the death of a child
Qing Su
Published online: 02 May 2024
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Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes
Marjolein J. H. T. Rikmenspoel, Fijgje de Boer, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, H. Roeline W. Pasman & Guy A. M. Widdershoven
Published online: 25 Apr 2024
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Book Review Edited by David E. Balk

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Aesthetic practices in bereavement
A review of Seasons of Grief: Creative Interventions to Support Bereaved People edited by Claudia Coenen. London; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2024. 320 pp. (ISBN-13 9781839974861, ISBN-10 1839974869 print). $37.95. eText (ISBN: 9781839974878). $37.95.
Barbara Thompson
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Families of organ donors between Jews and Arabs in Israel during a military operation: Constructing meaning through participation in an epistemic Community - Media analysis of two cases
Shirley Ben-Shlomo, Ayelet Oreg & Noaz Cohen
Published online: 18 Apr 2024
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Psychometric properties of the German version of the Pre-loss Grief Questionnaire (PG-12-R)
Viktoria Schmidt, Julia Treml, Elmar Brähler & Anette Kersting
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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When a parent dies: A scoping review of protective and risk processes for childhood bereavement
Rebecca Hoppe, Marcia A. Winter, Chelsea D. Williams & Irwin Sandler
Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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Ideological meaning-making in the aftermath of traumatic loss: Radicalization as meaning
Adi Barak, Mor Safyon & Liron Ben-Ezra
Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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The stigmatization of prolonged grief disorder and disenfranchised grief: A vignette-based experimental study
Ecem Sarper & David L. Rodrigues
Published online: 13 Apr 2024
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"People aren’t happy to see refugees coming to Switzerland. They don’t like assisted suicide for foreigners": Organizations’ perspectives regarding the right-to-die and suicide tourism
Daniel Sperling
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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Filling in the gaps: A grounded theory of the experiences and needs of healthcare staff following a colleague death by suicide in the UK
Hilary Causer, Johanna Spiers, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Nikolaos Efstathiou, Anya Gopfert, Kathryn Grayling, Jill Maben, Maria van Hove & Ruth Riley
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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“More support, less distress?”: Examining the role of social norms in alleviating practitioners’ psychological distress in the context of assisted dying services
Susilo Wibisono, Payam Mavandadi, Stuart Wilkinson, Catherine Amiot, Liz Forbat, Emma F. Thomas, Felicity Allen, Jean Decety, Kerrie Noonan, Kiara Minto, Lauren J. Breen, Madison Kho, Monique Crane, Morgana Lizzio-Wilson, Pascal Molenberghs & Winnifred Louis
Published online: 10 Apr 2024
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Validation of the Portuguese version of the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES) in a sample of bereaved individuals
Sara Albuquerque, Mariana Henriques, Pedro Joel Rosa, Mayra Delalibera, Robert A. Neimeyer, Alexandra Coelho & João Batista
Published online: 10 Apr 2024
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Breaking the news of the violent death of a close person to children under 18 years of age: A qualitative interview study
Susanna Rinne-Wolf, Simon Finkeldei & Tita Kern
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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The experiences of nursing students participating in a student death doula service-learning program in palliative care settings: A qualitative study
Si Qi Yoong, Wenru Wang, Alvin Chuen Wei Seah, Joanne Oon Nee Gan, Laura Tham Schmidt & Hui Zhang
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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Social disabling: A qualitative study of interpersonal interaction patterns of shiduers in China
Yin Chen & Liping Yang
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation
John Downey, Susan Cooper, Lynn Bassett, Alejandra Dubeibe Fong, Margaret Doherty & Jon Cornwall
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Grief Coach: Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom
Deborah A. Levesque, Melissa M. Lunardini, Sarah N. Adams, Emma L. Payne & Bianca G. Neumann
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Dynamic bidirectional relation between state mindfulness and suicidal ideation among female college students: The moderating effect of trait mindfulness
Jingxian Li, Xiaohui Luo & Hongyun Liu
Published online: 19 Mar 2024
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“…So that only the memory of anger remains…”: An autoethnographic analysis of the loss and mourning of addicted parents
Tímea Békési & Szilvia Kassai
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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The role of the social environment on dementia caregivers’ pre-death grief: A mixed- methods systematic review
Yong Hao Ng, Keyuan Jiao, Margaret H. P. Suen, Juan Wang & Amy Y.M Chow
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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BOOK REVIEW Edited by David E. Balk

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Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief
A review of The Routledge International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief in Contemporary Contexts, edited by Carrie Traher and Lauren J. Breen. Routledge, 2023. 380 pp. (ISBN: 978-1032118239). $270.00. Reviewed by Michelle Roberts
Michelle Roberts
Published online: 15 Mar 2024
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Suicide and the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study of discourse on an online pro-choice for suicide discussion forum
Athena Kheibari, Spencer G. Lawson, Kathryn Szechy & Robert Sheehan
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Family members’ experiences of bereavement in the emergency department: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
Yingxin Peng, Haoming Wu, Min Zhang & Ping Huang
Published online: 09 Mar 2024
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The European Grief Conference, Copenhagen 2022: An effort to unite the field of bereavement care in Europe
H. Müller, E. Zsak, M. O’Connor, O. Keegan, T. Graven Østergaard & L. Holm Larsen
Published online: 06 Mar 2024
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BOOK REVIEW Edited by David E. Balk

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A much-needed guide for today’s world
A review of A Professional’s Guide to Understanding Trauma and Loss, edited by David E. Balk, Tracy Wong, and Janet R. Balk, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. 363 pp. (ISBN 978-1-5275-0218-5). $118.95 Reviewed by Laura S. Wheat
Laura S. Wheat
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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The Inventory of Social Expectations in Bereavement: Development and psychometric validation of a new instrument
Caroline Wanza, Winfried Rief & Bettina K. Doering
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Examining optimism and flourishing as protective factors of suicidality across the adult lifespan: A cross-sectional investigation in three Spanish age groups
Edward C. Chang, Nicolás Sánchez-Álvarez, Lourdes Rey & Natalio Extremera
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk?
Nicholas Barr
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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Continuing Bonds in grieving men: A comparative description of Costa Rica and Spain
Daniel Martínez-Esquivel, Derby Muñoz-Rojas, Pedro Ruymán Brito-Brito, Martín Rodríguez-Álvaro & Alfonso Miguel García-Hernández
Published online: 23 Feb 2024
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Implicit or explicit self-associations with life and death? Predicting short-term self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among adolescents
N. Toukhy, Y. Gvion, S. Barzilay, A. Apter, L. Haruvi-Catalan, M. Lavidor, N. Benaroya-Milshtein, S. Fennig & S. Hamdan
Published online: 23 Feb 2024
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Prenatal twin-less twins: The congenital loss experience of individuals who lost a twin sibling in utero
Michal Mahat-Shamir
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Development and validation of the Earthquake Obsession Scale
Aslı Kartol, Servet Üztemur & Pınar Yaşar
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students
Martin Lytje & Atle Dyregrov
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: an inventory of Swedish literature for young children
Rakel Eklund
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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Spanish adaptation of the Stillbirth Stigma Scale (SSS)
Manuel Fernández-Alcántara, Ana Alejandra Esteban-Burgos, Silvia Escribano, Nereida Congost‐Maestre, Danielle Pollock & María José Cabañero-Martínez
Published online: 08 Feb 2024
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Do community-related traumatic events affect academic outcomes among adolescents? Quasi-experimental evidence from the Sewol disaster in South Korea
Dirk Bethmann & Jae Il Cho
Published online: 06 Feb 2024
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Blogging at the end-of-life: Anticipatory grief, losses, and positive experiences in facing terminal illness
Shana Worrell & Susan R. Hemer
Published online: 05 Feb 2024
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Mortuary attendants’ experiences of dealing with human dead bodies in Kavango and Zambezi regions: A qualitative study
Filippine Nekulu Nakakuwa, Theresia Kabuku & Ndinohokwe F. Mukerenge
Published online: 05 Feb 2024
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“A little bit different now”: Impacts of caregiving for parent with cancer on psychosocial development in emerging and young adulthood
Emily L. Mroz, Amanda Kastrinos, Kelsey Bacharz, Carla L. Fisher & Allison J. Applebaum
Published online: 31 Jan 2024
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Experiences of grief and mourning practices of Greek bereaved adults during the pandemic: A qualitative approach
Flora Koliouli, Lissy Canellopoulos, Irene Stasinopoulou, Charalampos Risvas, Livia Sani & Marie-Frédérique Bacqué
Published online: 31 Jan 2024
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Caregiver behaviors associated with positive youth development among bereaved children
Rebecca Hoppe, Lauren Alvis, Benjamin Oosterhoff & Julie Kaplow
Published online: 30 Jan 2024
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Child loss and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults: The moderating role of community care service
Hao Song & Zhibin Li
Published online: 30 Jan 2024
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Applying the phenomenology of grief: An autoethnographic study
Arnout ter Haar & Geert E. Smid
Published online: 30 Jan 2024
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The burden of grief: A scoping review of nurses’ and physicians’ experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
Sarah Burm, Selena MacDonald, Carolyn Melro, Erin Kennedy, Pauline Tran-Roop, Frances Kilbertus, Anna MacLeod, Susan Robinson & Jackie Phinney
Published online: 27 Jan 2024
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Does childhood parental death impact late life health directly and indirectly? Evidence from a National Survey in China
Yunjun Li & Honglin Chen
Published online: 25 Jan 2024
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Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–6
Fatma Kurttekin
Published online: 24 Jan 2024
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Unveiling studies on self-healing practices for suicide loss survivors: A scoping review
Adelia Khrisna Putri, Gregory Armstrong, Diana Setiyawati & Karl Andriessen
Published online: 23 Jan 2024
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Stress and suicidal ideation among Chinese college students: The role of meaning in life
Cheng Mingming, Xue Lian & Zhang Huiping
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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