Charles A Corr
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 292435 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Charles A Corr |
| PRENOMES | Charles A |
| SOBRENOME | Corr |
| ASSINATURA | CORR C A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4138-2979 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Worden’s tasks and mediators of mourning
This article explores the Four Tasks of Mourning that are perhaps the best-known of J. William ("Bill") Worden's contributions to the field of thanatology. The article does so by setting the tasks in the context of Worden's distinction between grief and mourning, and by examining his choice of "tasks" as central to his theory. Following that, this article explores the evolution of the four tasks themselves and Worden's additional theory of mediat…
A lifetime of professional contributions
When we first began to think about organizing a special series of articles for Death Studies in honor of J. William (Bill) Worden, we had known Bill for many years and thought we had a pretty good ...
Worden’s involvement in professional organizations
This article explores J. William Worden's early involvement in the development of professional organizations in both psychology and thanatology. In psychology, this article describes Worden's involvement with the Omega Project (1968-1986) that helped to establish the field of psychosocial oncology and eventually in 1986 the establishment of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS). The article also notes how Worden contributed to the est…
The National Alliance for Care at Home
This article offers a critical reflection on the symbolic implications of the name that has been chosen to represent the new organization resulting from the merger of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). That new organization is now called the National Alliance for Care at Home. The primary goals of this article are to educate, support, and advocate for home car…
The National Donor Family Council
The National Donor Family Council (NDFC) functioned under the sponsorship of the National Kidney Foundation from 1992-2014. Giving voice to the needs and views of donor families, the NDFC had an important impact on the support for those families. This article records significant points in the advocacy of donor families, summarizes the history of the NDFC, highlights the various activities and achievements of the NDFC, and offers some impressions …
Theories and concepts about society, dying, and bereavement commonly discussed in education about death, dying, and bereavement
This article describes and offers some evaluations of fifteen prominent theories and concepts in the field of death, dying, and bereavement. These theories and concepts range from claims about "death-denying societies" and the concept of "societal death systems" to theories about coping with dying and coping with loss, grief, and bereavement. Also examined are the concept of disenfranchised grief and theories about contrasting grief styles. Becau…
Is it True That “There are no Right or Wrong Ways to Grieve”
This article explores some of the implications of the often-heard saying that, "There are no right or wrong ways to grieve." In order to do so, this article offers some reflections on the key phrases that are involved implicitly or explicitly in this advice: loss, bereavement, grief, grieving, and mourning. On that basis, this article examines a series of claims: Are there actually no right ways to grieve?; Is there no single right way to grieve?…
Some Personal Reflections on the History and Current Status of Textbooks in the Field of Death, Dying, and Bereavement
This article is a contribution to recording one dimension of the history of education in the field of death, dying, and bereavement. It offers some personal reflections on the history and current status of textbooks in our field that have been or are currently published in North America. The scope of this reflection looks back on the earliest textbooks in this field published in the 1960s and 1970s and extends to textbooks published in the early …
Some Reflections On The History And Current Status of Education in the Field of Death, Dying, and Bereavement at the College and University Level In North America
This article is a contribution to recording one dimension of the field of death, dying, and bereavement. It offers some personal reflections on the history and current status of formal education in this field at the college and university level in North America. The scope of this reflection looks back on the earliest known examples of formal education in this field that took place in the 1960s and 1970s, provides examples of some of the early ped…
Some Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of Hospice Care in America
This article celebrates the 50 th anniversary of hospice care in America. It also offers a brief recounting of one person's reflections on some aspects of the history, achievements, and current status of American hospice care
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages Model In Selected Social Work Textbooks
Professional social work is a discipline in which practitioners often find themselves engaged in addressing issues related to illness, crises, and loss. Professional social work is also a discipline with links to many associated disciplines, especially those in the social sciences such as psychology, sociology, and gerontology, as well as provision of care in such fields as hospice/palliative care, bereavement support, and counseling. Exploring s…
The ‘five stages’ in coping with dying and bereavement
This article offers a reflective analysis of one well-known psychological theory, the so-called ‘five stages’ in coping with dying and coping with bereavement. Despite widespread acceptance among the general public and continued presence in some forms of professional education, it is argued that the ‘five stages’ model is less attractive than it initially appears. Significant criticisms of the theory are set forth here, as well as notable strengt…
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the “Five Stages” Model in a Sampling of Recent Textbooks Published in 10 Countries Outside the United States
A previous article in this journal examined some aspects of the enduring influence of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's "five stages" model through a sampling of recent American textbooks in selected academic disciplines and professional fields. This article offers a parallel sampling of 47 textbooks published in 10 different countries outside the United States. The questions to be answered are as follows: Does the "five stages" model appear without signif…
Should We Incorporate the Work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in Our Current Teaching and Practice and, If So, How
This article acknowledges the historical importance of the work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her five stages model. Because her name and this model appear in many textbooks, professional educational programs, and popular culture, should we incorporate these subjects in responsible ways in our current teaching and practice? The answer proposed here is that we should incorporate these subjects, but only if (a) we focus on her recommendations on beh…
Teaching About Life and Living in Courses on Death and Dying
Many who teach or are enrolled in classes on Death and Dying regularly hear critical remarks about these courses – mostly from individuals who have never attended such courses. This article suggests the value of a brief reflection on some examples of such remarks in order to put them into a more realistic context. More importantly, this article offers a depiction of what actually is taught in these types of courses. In short, this article offers …
Death Cafe
This article explains the meaning of the phrase Death Cafe and describes what typically occurs at a Death Cafe gathering. The article traces the history of the Death Cafe movement, explores some reasons why people take part in a Death Cafe gathering, and gives examples of what individuals think they might derive from their participation. In addition, this article notes similarities between the Death Cafe movement and three other developments in t…
Four Lessons From “The Horse on the Dining-Room Table”
This article offers a critical reflection on an allegory, “The Horse on the Dining-Room Table,” by Richard A. Kalish. After a brief review of Kalish's prolific publications during the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, the article turns to a detailed analysis of the three parts of the allegory. Next, there is a comparison of “The Horse on the Dining-Room Table” to a poem, “There’s an Elephant in the Room,” by Terry Kettering, with a table listing some …
Hannelore Wass
This article offers a reflection on the professional influence of Dr. Hannelore Wass on the author's introduction to and work in the field of death, dying, and bereavement. At the same time, it also offers comments on her broader influence on and legacies left to others who work in this field
Let’s Stop “Staging” Persons Who Are Coping With Loss
This article offers a critical analysis of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler’s On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss. The goal is to delineate the strengths and limitations of the book’s ostensible framework. Although the five stages of grief are described in Chapter 1, they play little role thereafter. Further, readers are told these stages are neither universal nor linear. Consequently, it wou…
The Death System According to Robert Kastenbaum
This article focuses on Robert Kastenbaum's seminal concept of the societal death system. Beginning with conflicting claims that America is a death-denying society versus a death-accepting society, the article reports Kastenbaum's definition and description of the death system in American society and sets forth the seven functions and five elements or components of that death system. Next, the article notes Kastenbaum's further claim that "All cu…
A Book on the Death of a Pet
David K. Meagher is an emeritus professor of health sciences at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he created the first graduate degree program in thanatology. He is a forme
Siblings and Child Friends in Death-Related Literature for Children
This article explores ways in which siblings and child friends are represented as being involved in death and loss experiences. These representations are taken from 51 selected examples of death-related literature designed to be read by or with children. The main goal is to ask how these youngsters respond when confronted by the death of a sibling or child friend. How do they act when they are on their own, with each other, or with adults? This i…
Hospice
Parents in Death-Related Literature for Children
This article explores ways in which parents are represented as being involved with children in death and loss experiences. These representations are taken from 46 selected examples of death-related literature designed to be read by or with children. The main goal for us is to ask how parents are portrayed in these books and how their interactions with children are depicted. Since parents usually bear primary responsibility for the care of their c…
Pet Loss in Death-Related Literature for Children
The death of a pet—or, as some prefer to call it, a companion animal—is a frequent subject in death-related literature for children. Pets are important to children for many reasons; for example, they serve as friends, playmates, and sources of unconditional love. In addition, pets help teach children about the responsibilities that are involved in caring for another living creature. Also, because the life cycles of most animals that become pets a…
Christian Wolff and Leibniz
Coping with dying
This article begins from an appraisal of the work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in the area of coping with dying. In that appraisal, some reason are noted as to why we should not consider her stage-based model to be the heart of the useful lessons that she taught. Instead, three lessons are suggested that we can and should learn from the work of Kübler-Ross on coping with dying. Three further elements round out this exposition: 1) some broader conclus…
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages Model In Selected Social Work Textbooks
Professional social work is a discipline in which practitioners often find themselves engaged in addressing issues related to illness, crises, and loss. Professional social work is also a discipline with links to many associated disciplines, especially those in the social sciences such as psychology, sociology, and gerontology, as well as provision of care in such fields as hospice/palliative care, bereavement support, and counseling. Exploring s…
Let’s Stop “Staging” Persons Who Are Coping With Loss
This article offers a critical analysis of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler’s On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss. The goal is to delineate the strengths and limitations of the book’s ostensible framework. Although the five stages of grief are described in Chapter 1, they play little role thereafter. Further, readers are told these stages are neither universal nor linear. Consequently, it wou…
Children's hospice care
This article seeks to define the principles that are at the heart of the concept of children's hospice care and to indicate the wide range of activities to which that concept is relevant. The discussion is organized around five main points: 1) an analysis of that which is distinctive of the hospice philosophy or hospice-like approaches to care; 2) a sketch of situations involving children to which approaches guided by such a philosophy are or mig…
Key Elements in a Framework for Helping Grieving Children and Adolescents
This article focuses on three main components: (1) some comments on the underlying philosophy and work of the Dougy Center, which are primarily intended to normalize experiences of grieving children and adolescents; (2) a description (based on the work of Sandra Fox) of four tasks for young persons who are bereaved; and (3) suggestions as to how adults might help grieving children and adolescents to address those four tasks. On this basis, the ar…
Religion and Empiricism
Peter Berger's Angels and Philosophy of Religion
Christian Wolff and Leibniz
The German Tradition in Philosophy
A Task-Based Approach to Coping with Dying
This article proposes a task-based approach for understanding and explicating coping with dying. Four primary dimensions of coping with dying are outlined (the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual). These dimensions define four primary areas of task work in coping with dying. In addition, an argument is offered as to why this task-based approach should be adopted. That argument depends on remarks about the nature of coping and an analys…
Adult hospice day care
This article describes the concept of adult hospice day care, argues that programs of adult hospice day care can be an important adjunct to home care and inpatient care, and provides a concrete illustration of ways in which a typical program of adult hospice day care might be implemented
Teaching a college course on children and death
This article describes the history of a college course entitled “Children and Death,” which has been offered by Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville since the fall term of 1977, together with some lessons learned from the teaching of that course in various formats on 16 separate occasions through the spring term of 1990. One purpose of this article is to suggest to interested persons both the feasibility and the desirability of mounting a…
Children's hospice care
This article seeks to define the principles that are at the heart of the concept of children's hospice care and to indicate the wide range of activities to which that concept is relevant. The discussion is organized around five main points: 1) an analysis of that which is distinctive of the hospice philosophy or hospice-like approaches to care; 2) a sketch of situations involving children to which approaches guided by such a philosophy are or mig…
The Day We Went to Auschwitz
This article reports some impressions and reflections deriving from a visit in June of 1990 to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southwestern Poland. Its themes are incongruity, horror, and moments when one encounters hitherto unexplored and startling terrain
Coping with dying
This article begins from an appraisal of the work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in the area of coping with dying. In that appraisal, some reason are noted as to why we should not consider her stage-based model to be the heart of the useful lessons that she taught. Instead, three lessons are suggested that we can and should learn from the work of Kübler-Ross on coping with dying. Three further elements round out this exposition: 1) some broader conclus…
Key Elements in a Framework for Helping Grieving Children and Adolescents
This article focuses on three main components: (1) some comments on the underlying philosophy and work of the Dougy Center, which are primarily intended to normalize experiences of grieving children and adolescents; (2) a description (based on the work of Sandra Fox) of four tasks for young persons who are bereaved; and (3) suggestions as to how adults might help grieving children and adolescents to address those four tasks. On this basis, the ar…
Enhancing the Concept of Disenfranchised Grief
Doka (1989a, p. 4) defined disenfranchised grief as “the grief that persons experience when they incur a loss that is not or cannot be openly acknowledged, publicly mourned, or socially supported.” He suggested that disenfranchisement can apply to unrecognized relationships, losses, or grievers, as well as to certain types of deaths. This article contends that disenfranchisement in bereavement may have a potentially broader scope than has been hi…
Master Concepts in the Field of Death, Dying, and Bereavement
This article proposes that thanatological studies attempt to develop broad master concepts that integrate knowledge both within the field and in relation to other disciplines. The authors then debate the adequacy of two possible master concepts—coping or adaptation—as ways to increase understandings of responses to events related to death and loss, such as dying, bereavement, grief, and mourning. Each of the co-authors of this article offers argu…
A Conclave on the Beach
An Annotated Bibliography of Death-Related Books for Children and Adolescents
Literature and Medicine - Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2002
Teaching a College Course on Children and Death for 22 Years
This article supplements an earlier account of experiences involved in teaching what is believed to be the first full-term, credit-bearing, college-level course on Children and Death (C. A. Corr, 1992). C. A. Corr's article covered a period of some 13 years and reported on three phases in the development and early history of the course. The present article describes a fourth phase during which the Children and Death course was offered in a format…
Pet Loss in Death-Related Literature for Children
The death of a pet—or, as some prefer to call it, a companion animal—is a frequent subject in death-related literature for children. Pets are important to children for many reasons; for example, they serve as friends, playmates, and sources of unconditional love. In addition, pets help teach children about the responsibilities that are involved in caring for another living creature. Also, because the life cycles of most animals that become pets a…
Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning in Death-Related Literature for Children
In preparing a series of annotated bibliographies on death-related literature for children and adolescents (Corr, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003a, 2003b), it became evident that this literature discusses topics related to bereavement, grief, and mourning in a variety of ways. That should not be surprising, since much of this literature was written to help children cope with experiences of death and loss. What is surprising, however, is the apparent absen…
Grandparents in Death-Related Literature for Children
In this article, I want to explore some of the ways in which grandparents are represented as sharing death and loss experiences in death-related literature designed to be read by or with children. My concern is to ask how grandparents are portrayed in these books and how their interactions with children are depicted. On the whole, one would expect that literature of this type would depict grandparents in a favorable light. Nevertheless, we can st…
Spirituality in Death-Related Literature for Children
Elsewhere (see “Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning in Death-Related Literature for Children” in this special issue) I have explained that as I prepared a series of annotated bibliographies on death-related literature for children and adolescents (Corr, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003a, 2003b), I realized that this literature was rich in many not-very-well explored topics. In particular, it struck me that themes related to spirituality often appear in this l…
Hospice
Parents in Death-Related Literature for Children
This article explores ways in which parents are represented as being involved with children in death and loss experiences. These representations are taken from 46 selected examples of death-related literature designed to be read by or with children. The main goal for us is to ask how parents are portrayed in these books and how their interactions with children are depicted. Since parents usually bear primary responsibility for the care of their c…
Siblings and Child Friends in Death-Related Literature for Children
This article explores ways in which siblings and child friends are represented as being involved in death and loss experiences. These representations are taken from 51 selected examples of death-related literature designed to be read by or with children. The main goal is to ask how these youngsters respond when confronted by the death of a sibling or child friend. How do they act when they are on their own, with each other, or with adults? This i…
A Book on the Death of a Pet
David K. Meagher is an emeritus professor of health sciences at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he created the first graduate degree program in thanatology. He is a forme
The Death System According to Robert Kastenbaum
This article focuses on Robert Kastenbaum's seminal concept of the societal death system. Beginning with conflicting claims that America is a death-denying society versus a death-accepting society, the article reports Kastenbaum's definition and description of the death system in American society and sets forth the seven functions and five elements or components of that death system. Next, the article notes Kastenbaum's further claim that "All cu…
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