Margaret S Stroebe

Datos Biográficos

ID623668
NOMBREMargaret S Stroebe
NOMBRESMargaret S
APELLIDOStroebe
FIRMASTROEBE M S
AFILIACIONESUtrecht University
ORCID0000-0002-8468-3317
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS76
TOTAL DE CITAS316
TOTAL COMO AUTOR73
TOTAL COMO EDITOR3
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1977
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H9

  • Toward the assessment of belief in stages of grief

    Open AccessKate A Avis, Paul A Boelen et al.ARTICLEDeath Studies2026

    Despite concerns that stage models of grief may harm bereaved people, the impact of belief in stages remains understudied. This is partly due to lack of a comprehensive measurement-instrument to assess belief in stages. Thus, the current study sought to develop such an instrument. Sixty-four items were generated by experts and subjected to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. This culminated in the 19-item Belief in Stages of Grief Scale…

  • Exploring loneliness across widowhood and other marital statuses

    Open AccessAnneke Vedder, Margaret S Stroebe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2024

    The vital role social relationships play in mental health and well-being has been well-documented. Disruption of an intimate bond through bereavement can be enduringly stressful, with loneliness featuring prominently, possibly compromising mental and physical health. We systematically reviewed studies examining loneliness across marital status groups, focusing on the widowed. The aim was to establish what is known about the prevalence of loneline…

  • Grieving a Drug-Related Death in the Context of One's Own Drug Use

    Open AccessLillian Bruland Selseng, Margaret Stroebe et al.ARTICLEContemporary Drug Problems2023Referencias: 54

    Drug-related deaths (DRDs) are a major societal challenge. People who use drugs are at particular risk of witnessing DRDs, and of losing people close to them to a DRD, and experiencing an overdose or other health issues themselves. People who experience sudden, unexpected, and stigmatized deaths, such as DRDs, are found to struggle more afterward than when the death is more natural and expected. Additionally, people who use drugs are more likely …

  • My Memories of the Time We Had Together Are More Important

    Open AccessKate Woodthorpe, Hannah Rumble et al.ARTICLESociology2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 26

    Funerals have long been of interest to social scientists. Previous sociological work has examined the relationship between individuality, belief and tradition within funeral services, founded on the assumption that public rituals have psycho-social benefit for organisers and attendees. With the introduction of direct cremation to the UK, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on funeral service attendance in 2020 and 2021, critique of this assum…

  • Bereavement in Times of Covid-19

    Open AccessMargaret S Stroebe, Henk SchutARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2021

    A review of the literature on adaptation to bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted to assess the current state of knowledge. Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar databases were searched for studies published during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 outbreak. 44 articles were included in the review. Narrative synthesis showed that knowledge was largely based on expert assessments of prior bereavement research and professional…

  • Funeral practices and grief

    John Birrell, J H W Birrell et al.ARTICLEBereavement Care2020

    Does restricting the ceremonial/ritual arrangements around a cremation to a minimum have a negative association with grief over time? This question has increasingly concerned professionals in the funeral industry as well as those in healthcare capacities working with bereaved persons. We examined the relationship between cremation arrangements and levels of grief. Bereaved people in the UK completed questionnaires 2 to 5 months post-loss and a ye…

  • Sounds of silence. The “special grief” of drug-death bereaved parents

    Open AccessKristine Berg Titlestad, Sonja Mellingen et al.ARTICLEAddiction Research & Theory2020

    Background: Drug-death bereavement is an understudied topic. We explore what bereaved parents experience after losing their child to drug use. The aim of the paper is to provide knowledge about what drug-death bereaved parents go through and study the kinds of help and support they receive.\n\nMethod: Reflexive thematic analysis is used to analyze 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews with Norwegian parents.\n\nResults: We generated four main th…

  • Drug-Related Death Bereavement

    Open AccessJ Kelly Thomas, Kristine Berg Titlestad et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2020

    Kelly Thomas first contacted us briefly—but to us so poignantly—about an earlier publication of ours on Drug-Related Death (DRD) bereavement entitled Sounds of silence. The ‘special grief’ of drug-death bereaved parents (Titlestad et al., 2020). He commented: It is coming up on the 3 years since we lost our daughter at age 21 in a DRD. I have found my wife listening to the song your paper refers to more times than I would like to count. I cried a…

  • Cremation and Grief

    Open AccessJohn Birrell, J H W Birrell et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2020

    Funeral services are known to serve multiple functions for bereaved persons. There is also a common, intuitively reasonable assumption of positive associations between engaging in funeral activities and adjustment to bereavement. We examined whether restricting ceremonial cremation arrangements to a minimum has a negative association with grief over time. Bereaved persons in the United Kingdom completed questionnaires 2 to 5 months postloss and a…

  • How Do Drug-Death-Bereaved Parents Adjust to Life Without the Deceased? A Qualitative Study

    Open AccessKristine Berg Titlestad, Margaret S Stroebe et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2020

    Knowledge about how bereaved persons grieve can enhance quality in providing the support and potential services that they need. We aimed to identify ways in which drug-death-bereaved Norwegian parents go on with their lives and what inhibits or promotes adaptation during their grieving. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyze 14 semistructured in-depth interviews. We generated three themes: (I) processing grief emotions, (II) proactive co…

  • The Study of Security and Separation

    Open AccessMargaret S StroebeARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2019

    John Bowlby's attachment theory has made a lasting contribution to scientific understanding of the nature and the impact of close interpersonal bonds, tracing their influence from early childhood through adulthood and into bereavement. The experience of separation and loss featured powerfully in Bowlby's account of the causes of mental health difficulties. He acknowledged many sources for his ideas. However, one potential intellectual force, name…

  • Cautioning Health-Care Professionals

    Open AccessMargaret Stroebe, Margaret S Stroebe et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2017

    Science and practice seem deeply stuck in the so-called stage theory of grief. Health-care professionals continue to “prescribe” stages. Basically, this perspective endorses the idea that bereaved people go through a set pattern of specific reactions over time following the death of a loved one. It has frequently been interpreted prescriptively, as a progression that bereaved persons must follow in order to adapt to loss. It is of paramount impor…

  • Rumination following bereavement

    Open AccessMaarten C Eisma, Margaret S StroebeARTICLEBereavement Care2017

    This contribution provides an overview of rumination (i.e., thinking repetitively and recurrently about negative events and/or negative emotions) in adjustment to bereavement. First, we summarise a growing literature on rumination and mental health outcomes of bereavement. Next, we compare two main theories explaining the maladaptive effects of rumination after loss, which hold conflicting implications for clinical practice. The Response Styles T…

  • Overload

    Open AccessMargaret S Stroebe, Henk SchutARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2016

    The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement (DPM) was put forward as a framework to help understand reactions to the death of a loved person. Since its inception, there have been various developments and further specifications regarding the model’s parameters. A number of researchers have assessed the model’s contribution and put some of its parameters to empirical test. It has also been applied in clinical practice. Despite generally posit…

  • Bereavement

    Open AccessMargaret Stroebe, Margaret S Stroebe et al.CHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • From loss to loneliness

    Eiko I Fried, Claudi Bockting et al.ARTICLEJournal of Abnormal Psychology2015

    Spousal bereavement can cause a rise in depressive symptoms. This study empirically evaluates 2 competing explanations concerning how this causal effect is brought about: (a) a traditional latent variable explanation, in which loss triggers depression which then leads to symptoms; and (b) a novel network explanation, in which bereavement directly affects particular depression symptoms which then activate other symptoms. We used data from the Chan…

  • Family Matters in Bereavement

    Open AccessMargaret Stroebe, Margaret S Stroebe et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2015

    The death of a loved one can be heartbreaking for those left behind, and indeed, bereavement is associated not only with adverse health effects but also a higher risk of dying oneself. Not surprisingly, its consequences have been the subject of much psychological enquiry, with a major interest in shedding light on how one adapts, who is most at risk, and why. Often the focus is on the bereaved individual, yet people do not typically grieve in iso…

  • Is Grief a Disease?”

    Open AccessMargaret S StroebeARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2015

    In 1961, George Engel (1913–1999), founder of the innovative general theory of illness and healing known as the biopsychosocial model, wrote a classic paper entitled “Is Grief a Disease? A Challenge for Medical Research.” This article fuelled debate about the status of grief as a medical condition, with Engel’s question frequently taken as the starting point. But what did Engel really say: Was he actually arguing that grief is a disease? Has his …

  • Telephone versus in-person intake assessment for bereavement intervention

    Catherine Newsom, Henk Schut et al.ARTICLEDeath Studies2015Referencias: 2

    Standardized, evidence-based risk assessment is an important component in providing effective bereavement care. E-health intake assessments have been offered alongside or instead of in-person assessments, although evidence concerning the equivalence of assessment results is lacking. This article examines differences between a semistructured intake assessment for grief intervention conducted over the telephone (n = 330) and in-person (n = 115). Di…

  • Guilt in Bereavement

    Jie Li, Giuseppe Bonvegna et al.ARTICLEDeath Studies2014

    Thirty-four quantitative and 9 qualitative studies are reviewed to indicate current understanding of the nature and impact of guilt in bereavement. This overview suggests that guilt is especially prevalent among some vulnerable subgroups, and it is associated with maladaptive health outcomes. Being male, longer bereavement time, and good end-of life experience seem to be associated with less guilt feelings. However, definition ambiguity, measurem…

  • The death of a grandparent

    Daan Westerink, Margaret Stroebe et al.ARTICLEBereavement Care2012

    The impact on children and adolescents of the death of a grandparent has been little researched, and may be under-estimated. In the western world, grandparents are increasingly likely to be involved in their grandchildren's care, whether for economic, practical or family reasons. Their death may therefore have a profound effect. It may also be the child's first experience in life of the loss of someone significant. This article starts with a shor…

  • The impact of migratory separation from parents on the health of adolescents in the Philippines

    Open AccessChantal Smeekens, Chantal Balasooriya‐smeeken et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2012Citada por: 11Referencias: 29

  • Practitioners and researchers working together in an intervention efficacy study

    Cate Newsom, Stewart W Wilson et al.ARTICLEBereavement Care2011

    All too often it is assumed that the differing priorities, values and ethics of practitioners and researchers are irreconcilable. This article describes the long, sometimes difficult and ultimately fruitful process of setting up an evaluation of the efficacy of the bereavement support service offered by Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland (CBCS). CBCS invited researchers from Utrecht University's Centre for Bereavement Research and Intervention to wo…

  • Challenges in evaluating adult bereavement services

    Henk Schut, Margaret Stroebe et al.ARTICLEBereavement Care2011

    Evaluating the effectiveness of bereavement interventions presents major theoretical, ethical and practical challenges. Based on the extensive research experience of the authors, this article outlines some of the key considerations that must be addressed when seeking to demonstrate the effectiveness of an intervention. These include what methods to use, the recruitment of participants, what to measure to demonstrate effectiveness, adapting measur…

  • Continuing bonds in adjustment to bereavement

    Open AccessMargaret S Stroebe, Georgios Abakoumkin et al.ARTICLEPersonal Relationships2011

    There is debate whether continuing bonds with a deceased person help or hinder adaptation to bereavement. This longitudinal study examined causal relationships between continuing bonds and symptoms over time. Following attachment theory predictions, suddenness of separation was examined as a moderator. Data were obtained from 60 bereaved spouses at 3 points across the first 2 years of bereavement. Measures included expectedness of death, grief an…