Psychology & Mental Health: Grief & End-of-Life

Advance Care Planning

Nan Bauer-Maglin, & Donna Perry. (2010). Final Acts : Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make. Rutgers University Press.

Sacha Langton-Gilks. (2018). Follow the Child : Planning and Having the Best End-of-Life Care for Your Child. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Leah Rogne, P., & Susana Lauraine McCune, M. C. (2014). Advance Care Planning : Communicating About Matters of Life and Death. Springer Publishing

Institute of Medicine, & Committee on Approaching Death: Addressing Key End-of-Life Issues. (2015). Dying in America : Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life. National Academies Press.

>> Articles

Hong, M., & Kim, K. (2022). Advance care planning among ethnic/racial minority older adults: Prevalence of and factors associated with informal talks, durable power of attorney for health care, and living will. Ethnicity & Health, 27(2), 453–462. doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2020.1734778
Given the ethnic/racial disparities in end-of-life care, this study aimed to describe and identify factors affecting engagement in three types of advance care planning including informal talk, living will, and durable power of attorney for health care among ethnic/racial minority older adults.

Shelley, M. R. (2017). Talking about the Taboo Topic of Death: State and Federal Initiatives to Reach Informed Consent at the End of Life through Advance Care Planning. Drake L. Rev., 65, 583.

Dying - Palliative Care

Emily K. Abel. (2017). Living in Death’s Shadow : Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Harold Braswell. (2019). The Crisis of US Hospice Care : Family and Freedom at the End of Life. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Monika Renz, & John Peck. (2015). Dying : A Transition. Columbia University Press. "...encourages practitioners to not only safeguard patients'dignity as they die but also take stock of their verbal, nonverbal, and metaphorical cues as they progress, helping to personalize treatment and realize a more peaceful death."

Joan Berzoff, & Phyllis R. Silverman. (2004). Living with Dying : A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners. Columbia University Press.

Roi Livne. (2019). Values at the End of Life : The Logic of Palliative Care. Harvard University Press. This insightful study examines the deeply personal and heart-wrenching tensions among financial considerations, emotional attachments, and moral arguments that motivate end-of-life decisions.

Richard McQuellon, & Michael Cowan. (2010). The Art of Conversation Through Serious Illness : Lessons for Caregivers. Oxford University Press. "...the authors consider how to best listen to and speak with one facing life-threatening illness, with lessons on being a primary conversation partner, becoming properly empathic and receiving empathy, maintaining everyday conversation, using platitudes appropriately, understanding healthy denial, and talking about dying."

Dying & Mortality

David Clark. (2013). Transforming the Culture of Dying : The Work of the Project on Death in America. Oxford University Press.

Joseph E. Davis, & Paul Scherz. (2020). The Evening of Life : The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well. University of Notre Dame Press.

Lawrence R. Samuel. (2013). Death, American Style : A Cultural History of Dying in America. Rowman & Littlefield. The notion of one day disappearing from the earth forever is contrary to many of America's defining cultural values, with death and dying viewed as 'un-American' experiences....Americans need to individually and collectively come to terms with mortality if we are to learn to treat death as an inevitable part of life, and to prepare accordingly.

>> Memoirs & Reflections

Allan Kellehear. (2014). The Inner Life of the Dying Person. Columbia University Press.

Irvin D. Yalom, & Marilyn Yalom. (2021). A Matter of Death and Life. Redwood Press. A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her terminal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret.

>>Articles

 Meier, E. A., Gallegos, J. V., Thomas, L. P., Depp, C. A., Irwin, S. A., & Jeste, D. V. (2016). Defining a Good Death (Successful Dying): Literature Review and a Call for Research and Public Dialogue. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry, 24(4), 261–271. doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2016.01.135 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4828197/

Bereavement & Grief

Joanne Cacciatore. (2017). Bearing the Unbearable : Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief. Wisdom Publications.

Marian Carter. (2016). Helping Children and Adolescents Think About Death, Dying and Bereavement. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Cholbi, M. (2021). Grief: A Philosophical Guide. Princeton University Press.

Caroline Lloyd. (2018). Grief Demystified : An Introduction. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Carolyn Ambler Walter, P. L., & Judith L. M. McCoyd, P. L. Q. (2016). Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan : A Biopsychosocial Perspective. Second edition. Springer.

>> Memoirs & Narratives of Grief

Heather L. Servaty-Seib, & David Fajgenbaum. (2015). We Get It : Voices of Grieving College Students and Young Adults. Jessica Kingsley.

Caroline Pearce, and Carol Komaromy. (2021) Narratives of Parental Death, Dying and Bereavement : A Kind of Haunting. Palgrave Macmillan.

Nan Bauer-Maglin. (2019). Widows’ Words : Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between. Rutgers University Press.

Putnam, Ann. Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter’s Last Goodbye. University of Iowa Press, 2009.

Jessica Zucker. (2021). I Had a Miscarriage : A Memoir, a Movement: Feminist Press at CUNY.

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