Objective To examine the relationship between physicians' death anxiety and medical
communication and decision-making. It was hypothesized that physicians' death anxiety …

Fourth Edition Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! Praise for the Fourth Edition:" In the fields
of death education, research and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant... ALL …

Aims and objectives To investigate nurses' roles and responsibilities in providing
bereavement care during the care of dying patients within acute care hospitals. Background …

Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people
experience loss over the life course, from childhood to old age. It examines the interventions …

Palliative care professionals, such as social workers, often work with death and
bereavement. They need to cope with the challenges on “self” in working with death, such as …

Aims To examine new graduate nurses' perceptions of competency on coping with dying
and death and the relationship with death self‐efficacy and death anxiety. Design A …

Ambiguous grief results from a nondeath loss and has received minimal attention in the
social work literature. This type of loss occurs in situations like missing persons …

Background To effectively care for dying patients, nurses need to possess death self-efficacy—
the state of having both a range of skills and capabilities to provide care to dying patients …

Currently, the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs
(2009) does not require course work on grief and loss, and it is possible for counselors to …

Perinatal loss, or the death of a child shortly before or after birth, is an under-researched
area of bereavement associated with high levels of complicated and disenfranchised grief …