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Report on Bereavement and Grief Research

November 2003

Center for the Advancment of Health

Acknowledgments
The principal author of this monograph is Janice L. Genevro, PhD, with assistance from Tracy Marshall, MPH, and Tess Miller, DrPH. Members of the Scientific Advisory Committee: * Tim Ayers, PhD, Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University David Balk, PhD, Oklahoma StateUniversity Jacques Bolle, DNSc., R.N., National Institutes of Health Clinical Center * George A. Bonanno, PhD, Teacher’s College, Columbia University
* Stephen R. Connor, PhD, National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization

Alicia Skinner Cook, PhD, Colorado State University The Rev. Kenneth Doka, PhD, The College of New Rochelle; Hospice Foundation of America Karl Goodkin, MD, PhD, FAPA,University of Miami Graduate School Martica Hall, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center * Robert O. Hansson, PhD, University of Tulsa John Jordan, PhD, The Family Loss Project * Dennis Klass, PhD, Webster University * Miriam Moss, MA, Polisher Research Institute of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center
Janice W. Nadeau, PhD, RN

* Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, University of Memphis
Kevin AnnOltjenbruns, PhD, Colorado State University

Holly Prigerson, PhD, Yale University Paul Rosenblatt, PhD, University of Minnesota Irwin Sandler, PhD, Preventive Intervention Research Center, Arizona State University Ester R. Shapiro, PhD, University of Massachusetts,
Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD, University of California, Irvine Caroline Tancredy, MA, University of California at Davis

Robert S.Weiss, PhD, University of Massachusetts
* Monograph Work Group

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Foreword
In 2000, the Project on Death in America of the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation awarded a grant to the Center for the Advancement of Health to further the development of the field of grief. This grant lead to the creation of the Grief Research: Gaps, Needsand Actions Project. The focus of the project was on strengthening research on grief and bereavement with the ultimate goal of improving the care that grieving people receive. The project’s mandate was to observe the field of grief research as a whole and develop strategies and recommendations to improve and support research. Goals of the project also included building connections among peopleworking in the field and facilitating the use of research to guide the provision of the best possible care. To guide the work of the project, a scientific advisory committee (SAC) was formed, composed of senior researchers and practitioners with high credibility, broad expertise and vision. SAC members were invited to participate in round table discussions in the summer of 2001. A report of thesediscussions was one of the products of this project and served as a good foundation for the remaining work of the project (the report is available at www.cfah.org). The work of the project was broken into five work groups: monograph, research agenda, research funding, communication and bridging. Each group was tasked with a specific goal and objectives and SAC members elected to join a workgroup of their interest. The following publication would not have been possible without the contributions and significant guidance from members of the scientific advisory committee, most particularly the monograph work group of the SAC. However, the full committee was not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations for research included in the report, which they saw in draft form prior tofinal revisions before its release. Responsibility for the release version of the report rests with the Center for the Advancement of Health.

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Table of Contents
Foreword .......................................................................................................................................... 2 Section I Chapter 1 Introduction...