Kenneth J Doka
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2230743 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kenneth J Doka |
| PRENOMES | Kenneth J |
| SOBRENOME | Doka |
| ASSINATURA | DOKA K J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | College of New Rochelle |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4266-3748 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
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…
Commemorating the 50 th Anniversary of the University of Rhode Island Seminar on Death Education, August 1975
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…
Walter, T. (2020). Death in the Modern World
Rosenstein, D., & Yopp, J. (2018). The Group
Shushan, G. (2018). Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions
Disenfranchised Grief
This chapter focuses on highlighting and exploring the sociological nature of disenfranchised grief. The notion of disenfranchised grief has become very well established in the professional literature relating to death, grief, and bereavement and is widely used by practitioners, educators, and researchers. The chapter offers a brief overview of some of the practice applications of the sociological concept of disenfranchised grief. Having seen how…
Changes in Postmortem Identity and Grief
This article reviews the concept of postmortem identity, noting its relationships to other concepts such as relational trauma. Identity is a very fluid concept that can change even after an individual's death as new information becomes available or even as social values change. Such modifications of postmortem identity can affect the course of bereavement-complication reactions to loss
Garrett, G. (2015). Entertaining Judgment
Strangstad, L. (2013). A Graveyard Preservation Primer ; Sweeney, K. (2014). American Afterlife
Wilson, J. (2014). Supporting People Through Loss and Grief
Parkes, C. M. (2015). The Price of Love
Productivity in Thanatology
To provide a systematic view of the development of scholarly productivity in thanatology, we coded over 1,550 articles published in the field’s leading journals, Omega and Death Studies, for the 20-year period from 1991 to 2010. Tracing trends in the authorship of this evolving literature, we report evidence for (a) the increasing feminization of the field, reflected in the elimination of the gender imbalance in authorship that previously favored…
The case for a sociology of dying, death, and bereavement
Dying, death, and bereavement do not occur in a social vacuum. How individuals and groups experience these phenomena will be largely influenced by the social context in which they occur. To develop an adequate understanding of dying, death, and bereavement we therefore need to incorporate a sociological perspective into our analysis. This article examines why a sociological perspective is necessary and explores various ways in which sociology can…
Hannelore Wass
Hannelore Wass's enduring contribution to the field of thanatology focused on death education In addition to developing a journal initially focused on that topic, Wass also created one of the first text books in the field. This article explores the factors that caused death education to emerge in the late 1960s as well as issues that death education still faces as it continues to evolve
Publication Trends in Thanatology
To identify important trends in thanatology as a discipline, the authors analyzed over 1,500 articles that appeared in Death Studies and Omega over a 20-year period, coding the category of articles (e.g., theory, application, empirical research), their content focus (e.g., bereavement, death attitudes, end-of-life), and for empirical studies, their methodology (e.g., quantitative, qualitative). In general, empirical research predominates in both …
The Awareness of Mortality
Kastenbaum's work had a strong developmental perspective. In fact, one of his first pieces explored the ways that adolescents experienced death. This article continues Kastenbaum's developmental perspective by considering the ways that a personal sense of mortality generally develops in adulthood as mid-life adults face the deaths of parents and peers as well as the inevitable signs of senescence
Briefly Noted
Festschrift in Honor of Robert Jay Kastenbaum, PhD
Introduction to Special Issue
The three pieces in this section introduce the Festschrift celebrating the works and influence of Omega: Journal of Death and Dying's founding editor. Robert Kastenbaum. Robert Fulton, an early Associate Editor of the Journal begins with some personal reflections on Kastenbaum. Klass and Doka then describe the nature of the Festschrift. A closing coda by Robert Kastenbaum's wife, Beatrice Kastenbaum, reminds us of the person behind the work
Omega
A Call to the Field
While complicated grief has been addressed in part through some recommendations for modifications in the upcoming fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), there remain reasons for substantial concern about its scope therein and within clinical practice. The authors issue a call to the field, reiterating that complicated grief is complicated and cannot be confined to just one syndrome or disorder. Continu…
The Organization of Thanatology
This article explores, using Wilensky's Model of Professionalization, the emergence of professional organizations within the thanatology. The authors review the history of four organizations--The Foundation of Thanatology, Ars Moriendi, The Forum for Death Education and Counseling (now the Association for Death Education and Counseling: A Thanatology Organization [ADEC]), and The International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement (IWG). Th…
Grief, multiple loss and dementia
Alzheimer's disease and the other dementias bring with them multiple losses for the person with dementia, their spouse and family, and professional caregivers. The person with dementia will experience the major losses of memory, role and autonomy, and ultimately of identity and selfhood. Their spouse and other family members may lose the person they knew and loved, as well as their hopes and expectations for the future, and even their home, socia…
An Internet Tool to Normalize Grief
This research evaluated the efficacy of a psycho-educational Internet self-help tool to educate and support recently (1-6 months) bereaved individuals. The goal of the website was to help users normalize their grief to enhance their adaptive adjustment. A randomized controlled trial evaluated the gains in social cognitive theory constructs and state anxiety. Compared to the control group (N = 34), treatment participants (N = 33) reported signific…
The case for a sociology of dying, death, and bereavement
Dying, death, and bereavement do not occur in a social vacuum. How individuals and groups experience these phenomena will be largely influenced by the social context in which they occur. To develop an adequate understanding of dying, death, and bereavement we therefore need to incorporate a sociological perspective into our analysis. This article examines why a sociological perspective is necessary and explores various ways in which sociology can…
Silent sorrow
Studies of grief and bereavement have long recognized that relationship and attachment to the deceased is a critical determinant of the intensity of grief. Yet most studies only examine the impact of death on the immediate family or close kin. There is often an implicit assumption that such close relationships only exist among spouses or other members of the immediate family. This paper considers the impact of grief on nontraditional relationship…
Hannelore Wass
Hannelore Wass's enduring contribution to the field of thanatology focused on death education In addition to developing a journal initially focused on that topic, Wass also created one of the first text books in the field. This article explores the factors that caused death education to emerge in the late 1960s as well as issues that death education still faces as it continues to evolve
Publication Trends in Thanatology
To identify important trends in thanatology as a discipline, the authors analyzed over 1,500 articles that appeared in Death Studies and Omega over a 20-year period, coding the category of articles (e.g., theory, application, empirical research), their content focus (e.g., bereavement, death attitudes, end-of-life), and for empirical studies, their methodology (e.g., quantitative, qualitative). In general, empirical research predominates in both …
Loss upon loss
Studies of grief and bereavement have long recognized that attachment and relationship to the deceased is a critical determinant of the intensity of grief. Research has also noted the effect of ambivalent relationships on grief resolutions. Yet, most studies have tended to focus on the bereavement of immediate family and close kin. This study explores the bereavement of persons who have been divorced and then experienced the death of their ex-spo…
Masculine Responses to Loss
Gender differences in grieving are receiving growing attention. The prevalent view is that men often need help with their grieving. The bereaved male is frequently seen as impaired by an apparent inability both to express feelings and to seek social support. The authors present a pattern of grieving — masculine grief — contending that it is different, but not deficient. The use of the term “masculine” emphasises that the pattern is gender-related…
Assigning Blame
Two drowning incidents in large municipal swimming pools were studied. In both, a similar process was observed in which an attempt was made to restore the “sentimental order” which had been fractured by the drownings. This was accomplished through discussion by staff members. This continued until a consensus was reached that generally absolved staff of blame and assigned it elsewhere. Two factors may have influenced this process in the incidences…
Recent Bereavement and Registration for Death Studies Courses
Two groups of students, those who had registered for a course entitled The Sociology of Death and those who had registered for another sociology class were compared as to their death related experiences. Students in the Sociology of Death class reported more deaths of friends and relatives over two five-year periods, and more work experiences in death related settings than students in the control group. The differences were significant at the .05…
The Social Organization of Terminal Care in Two Pediatric Hospitals
This was a study of how staff organized behavior around dying children in two pediatric hospitals in a midwestern city. Both hospitals were observed for a period of a month, and eleven cases were compared in terms of staff organization of care and efforts of staff to adjust at death. Staff were seen to negotiate various demands upon care on the basis of whether or not they defined the death of a particular patient to be certain or uncertain. Thes…
Expectation of Death, Participation in Funeral Arrangements, and Grief Adjustment
This research investigated the hypotheses that prior expectation of death and participation of the bereaved in planning and conducting funeral rituals will facilitate grief adjustment. Fifty primary survivors were interviewed twelve to eighteen months after the death. The hypothesis that participation in funeral rituals will facilitate grief adjustment was not confirmed. Prior expectation of death was significantly related to subsequent grief adj…
Loss upon loss
Studies of grief and bereavement have long recognized that attachment and relationship to the deceased is a critical determinant of the intensity of grief. Research has also noted the effect of ambivalent relationships on grief resolutions. Yet, most studies have tended to focus on the bereavement of immediate family and close kin. This study explores the bereavement of persons who have been divorced and then experienced the death of their ex-spo…
Silent sorrow
Studies of grief and bereavement have long recognized that relationship and attachment to the deceased is a critical determinant of the intensity of grief. Yet most studies only examine the impact of death on the immediate family or close kin. There is often an implicit assumption that such close relationships only exist among spouses or other members of the immediate family. This paper considers the impact of grief on nontraditional relationship…
Risky Business
The little existing research on risky sports tends to concentrate on the demographic and psychological characteristics of individuals who participate in high-risk sports such as scuba diving, parachuting, spelunking, auto racing, mountain climbing, and hang gliding. This study considers another dimension: most risky sports are group sports. They involve other people as partners or members of support groups. A death, then, affects others. The stud…
The Therapeutic Bookshelf
This article reminds readers that grief books intended for non-professional audiences may be an important theoretical tool in helping bereaved resolve grief. Briefly reviewing some base self-help literature, the author notes the strengths and limitations of the varied genre of self-help literature
Disenfranchised Grief
The monkey's paw
Despite the common occurrence of the loss of a parent in adulthood, most research has either focused on the child's loss of a parent or parental loss of an adult child. Yet research has reported that the death of a parent is a stressful loss to adults. However, little research explores circumstances that might complicate loss. This research considers the role of inheritance in the resolution of grief. It was found that inheritance reflects, and p…
Coping with Life-Threatening Illness
For many years Rubier-Ross' stage theory of dying has been the predominant model, at least popularly, in the field of thanatology. Yet this model has sustained considerable criticisms. This article reviews criticisms of the stage model. It suggests that a new model would need to widen consideration of the range of coping mechanisms that individuals employ as they struggle with life-threatening illnesses; emphasize that no style of coping is inher…
Masculine Responses to Loss
Gender differences in grieving are receiving growing attention. The prevalent view is that men often need help with their grieving. The bereaved male is frequently seen as impaired by an apparent inability both to express feelings and to seek social support. The authors present a pattern of grieving — masculine grief — contending that it is different, but not deficient. The use of the term “masculine” emphasises that the pattern is gender-related…
Disenfranchised grief
Omega Interview
New International Directions in HIV for Gay and Bisexual Men
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…
Spirituality, loss and grief
Ethics, end-of-life decisions and grief
Ethical end-of-life decisions do more than prolong or terminate a life. These ethical decisions may haunt survivors long after the death occurs. They may complicate grief, creating family dissension, inhibiting support and increasing ambivalence over the nature or circumstances of the death. Conversely, end-of-life decisions may not always be negative. In other circumstances, they may facilitate the grief process, allowing survivors a meaningful …
Fulfillment as Sanders' Sixth Phase of Bereavement
Prior to her death, Catherine Sanders was interested in modifying her earlier work on the phases of grief. She had begun to explore the conceptualization of a sixth phase of the grieving process that she tentatively termed fulfillment. This conceptualization not only reflected her research but her own personal grief journey. This article both presents Sanders' early theorizing about this phase and places it in the context of her life and her life…
Disenfranchised grief in historical and cultural perspective.
An Internet Tool to Normalize Grief
This research evaluated the efficacy of a psycho-educational Internet self-help tool to educate and support recently (1-6 months) bereaved individuals. The goal of the website was to help users normalize their grief to enhance their adaptive adjustment. A randomized controlled trial evaluated the gains in social cognitive theory constructs and state anxiety. Compared to the control group (N = 34), treatment participants (N = 33) reported signific…
The International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement
Grief, multiple loss and dementia
Alzheimer's disease and the other dementias bring with them multiple losses for the person with dementia, their spouse and family, and professional caregivers. The person with dementia will experience the major losses of memory, role and autonomy, and ultimately of identity and selfhood. Their spouse and other family members may lose the person they knew and loved, as well as their hopes and expectations for the future, and even their home, socia…
The Organization of Thanatology
This article explores, using Wilensky's Model of Professionalization, the emergence of professional organizations within the thanatology. The authors review the history of four organizations--The Foundation of Thanatology, Ars Moriendi, The Forum for Death Education and Counseling (now the Association for Death Education and Counseling: A Thanatology Organization [ADEC]), and The International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement (IWG). Th…
Omega
Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (36 obras) · Psychology (33 obras) · Grief (24 obras) · Psychotherapist (22 obras) · Sociology (19 obras) · Medicine (15 obras) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (11 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras)