Within ethnography, observation and participation are interwoven as sociological research
practice that involves watching, listening and asking questions about people's daily lives …

This study explored helping professionals' views on death work competencies. A total of 176
helping professionals were invited to state what the necessary competencies in death work …

This study examines the impact of a death and dying course on 39 undergraduate students'
attitudes and anxieties about death. Authors outline key aspects of the curriculum used in …

Research suggests that graduate students in counseling and beginning counselors rate
grief and death-related topics as those with which they are most uncomfortable (Kirchberg & …

Résumé Introduction Un groupe de cliniciens français formateurs en oncologie et en soins
palliatifs évalue qualitativement les formations à l'accompagnement de la mort et du deuil …

Students on work‐based professional programmes experience a range of challenges in
their learning and are often required to move between roles to balance their personal, work …

The experience of learning about emotive topics in the classroom remains relatively under-
researched. Within the social sciences, death studies is undergoing a resurgence yet little is …

Health-care professionals who offer perinatal bereavement support often encountered
numerous stressful events in daily practices. Secondary trauma and burnout related to …

Abstract In Making Space for Dying: Portraits of Living with Dying, I describe the everyday
lived experience of dying and the care culture within freestanding, community-based, end-of …

Death is a topic that is often uncomfortable to discuss with patients and families in practice.
Even in graduate and clinical training, the concept of loss can evoke a range of feelings that …