“We've Had to Relearn All of Our Family Dynamics”: Communicated Narrative Sense-Making of Bereavement Following Terminal Illness in US Families

CR Taladay-Carter, JK Kellas - Journal of Family Communication, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A family member's death from terminal illness can impact the entire family in
profound ways. Surviving family members must make sense of their bereavement, though …

Why did this happen to me? Causal attributions of illness and cultural health capital

AS Gallan, A Helkkula, WR McConnell - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
This study examines how conversations between patients and clinicians about the causes of
their health conditions relate to patient engagement in care. Leveraging cultural health …

“It comes in waves”: A relational dialectics approach to exploring living grief in US emerging adults with invisible illness

C Taladay-Carter, JN Gunning - Journal of Social and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Experiencing the onset of (invisible) chronic illness in emerging adulthood prompts a unique
grieving process that is disenfranchised due to social discourses that sanction grief to death …