Handbook of Bereavement Research: Consequences, Coping and Care
Margaret S. Stroebe is Associate Professor of Psychology at Utrecht University. She received her PhD in cross-cultural psychology at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Her current interests in the bereavement area have to do with interactive patterns of coping, theoretical approaches to grief and grieving, and the efficacy of bereavement intervention. She is co-author (with Wolfgang Stroebe) of Bereavement and Health (1987) and Social Psychology and Health (1993) and editor (with Wolfgang Strobe and Robert O. Hansson) of The Handbook of Bereavement: Theory, Research, and Intervention (1993).Robert O. Hansson is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He earned an MBA and his PhD in social psychology from the University of Washington in 1973. His research interests focus on successful aging, aging families, coping with loss, and stressful life transitions in old age. He is coeditor (with Margaret S. Stroebe and Wolfgang Strobe) of The Handbook of Bereavement: Theory, Research, and Intervention (1993) and co-author (with Bruce N. Carpenter) of Relationships in Old Age: Coping With the Challenge of Transition (1994).Wolfgang Stroebe is Professor of Social, Organizational, and Health Psychology at Utrecht University. He received PhDs from the University of Munster, Germany, and London School of Economics, United Kingdom. He has previously held academic positions in the United States, England, and Germany. His research interests span social and health psychology. He has written and edited in both these fields, including volumes on bereavement (with the editors of this volume), and the European Review of Social Psychology (coedited with Miles Hewstone).Henk Schut is Associate Professor of Psychology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University in 1992. His research interests cover processes of coping with loss and (the efficacy of) grief therapy and counseling of bereaved persons. He also works as a trainer for professionals (e.g., funeral directors and medical specialists) in dealing with the dying and the bereaved. He is one of the authors of the Dutch publication Suicide and Grief (1983) and co-author (with Jos de Keijser, also in Dutch) of Individual Grief Counseling (1991).