Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research
Representative Publications
- Maciejewski PK, Zhang B, Block SD, Prigerson HG. An Empirical Examination of the State Theory of Grief Resolution. JAMA (February 21 2007, Vol. 297, No. 7)
- Balboni TA, Vanderwerker LC, Lathan C, Block SD, Peteet JR, Paulk E, Prigerson HG. Religiousness and Spiritual Support among Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations with End-o-Life Treatment Preferences and Quality of Life. J Clinical Oncology 2007; 25: 5.
- Prigerson HG, Horowitz MJ, Jacobs SC, Parkes CM, Aslan M, Raphael B, Marwit SJ, Wortman CB, Goodkin K, Neimeyer RA, Bonanno G, Block S, Kissane D, Boelen P, Maercker A, Litz B, Johnson JG, First MB, Maciejewski PK. Field Trial of Consensus Criteria for Prolonged Grief Disorder Proposed for DSM-V Archives of General Psychiatry (submitted)
- Siegel MD, Hayes E, Vanderwerker LC, Loseth D, Prigerson HG. Psychiatric Illness in the Next-of-Kin of Patients who Die in the Intensive Care Unit. Critical Care Medicine (submitted)
- Vanderwerker LC, Chen JH, Paulk E, Charpentier P, Prigerson HG. Black-White Differences in Risk for Suicide. J Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (in press)
- Cherlin EJ, Barry CL, Prigerson HG, Schulman-Green D, Johnson-Hurzeler R, Kasl SV, Bradley EH. Bereavement Services for Family Caregivers: Who Uses, Why and Why Not? J Palliative Medicine 2007; 10: 148-158.
- Ray A, Block SD, Friedlander R, Zhang B, Maciejewski PK, Prigerson HG. Peaceful Awareness in Advanced Cancer Patients. J Palliative Medicine 2006; 9:1359-1368.
- Zhang B, El-Jawahri A, Prigerson HG. Update on bereavement research: evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of complicated bereavement. J Palliative Medicine 2006;9:1188-203.
- Kris AE, Cherlin EJ, Prigerson H, Carlson MD, Johnson-Hurzeler R, Kasl SV, Bradley EH. Length of Hospice Enrollment and Subsequent Depression in Family Caregivers: 13-Month Follow-Up Study. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;14(3):264-269.
- Bambauer KZ, Prigerson HG. The stigma receptivity scale and its association with mental health service use among bereaved older adults. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2006 Feb;194(2):139-41.
- Vanderwerker LC, Jacobs SC, Parkes CM, Prigerson HG. An exploration of associations between separation anxiety in childhood and complicated grief in later life. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2006 Feb;194(2):121-3.
- Mitchell AM, Kim Y, Prigerson HG, Mortimer MK. Complicated grief and suicidal ideation in adult survivors of suicide. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2005 Oct;35(5):498-506.
- Pearce MJ, Singer JL, & Prigerson HG. (2006). Religious coping among caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients: Main effects and psychosocial mediators. Journal of Health Psychology, 11(5), x 2006; 11:743-59
- Sacco, KA, Head, CA, Vessicchio, JC, Easton, CJ, Prigerson, HG, George, TP. (2006). Adverse Childhood Experiences, Smoking and Mental Illness in Adulthood: A Preliminary Study. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry (in press) 2006
- Johnson, JG, Zhang, B., Greer JA, & Prigerson HG. (2006). Parental control, partner dependency and complicated grief among widowed adults in the community. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2007; 195(1):26-30.
- Prigerson HG, Maciejewski PK. A Call for Sound Empirical Testing and Evaluation of Criteria for Complicated Grief Proposed for DSM-V. Omega: Journal of Death & Dying 2005, Vol. 52 Issue 1, p9
- Prigerson HG, Vanderwerker LC. Final Remarks Omega: Journal of Death & Dying 2005, Vol. 52 Issue 1, p91
- Areej Raed El-Jawahri, Prigerson HG. The Assessment and Management of Bereaved Caregivers. J Palliative Medicine 2006
- Johnson JG, Vanderwerker LC, Bornstein RF, Zhang B, Prigerson HG. Development and Validation of an Instrument for the Assessment of Dependency among Bereaved Persons. J of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 2006:28:263-272.
- Cherlin E, Johnson-Hurzeler R, Prigerson H, Bradley EH. When Do We Talk and What Do We Say? Communication Between Physicians and Family Caregivers about Care at the End of Life. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2005;8(6):1176-85.
- Tarakeshwar N, Vanderwerker, LC, Paulk E, Pearce M, Kasl SV, Prigerson HG. Religious Coping is Associated with the Quality of Life of Advanced Cancer Patients. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2006, 9 (3)
- Mitchell A, Kim Y, Mortimer-Stephens MK, Prigerson HG. Complicated Grief in Survivors of Suicide. Crisis 2004; 25: 12-18
- Latham AE, Prigerson HG. Suicidality and Bereavement: Complicated Grief as Psychiatric Disorder Presenting Greatest Risk of Suicidality. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior 2004; 34 (4): 350-363
- Bradley EH, Prigerson HG, Carlson M, Cherlin E, Kasl SV, Hurzeler-Johnson R. Does Length of Hospice Enrollment Affect Depression among Surviving Caregivers? Am J Psychiatry 2004; 161 (12):2257-62.
- Kadan-Lottick NS, Vanderwerker LC, Block SD, Zhang B, Prigerson HG. Psychiatric disorders and mental health service use in patients with advanced cancer. Cancer 2005 Nov 14; 104(12):2872-2881
- Vanderwerker LC, Laff RE, Kadan-Lottick NS, McColl S, Prigerson HG. Psychiatric disorders and mental health service use among caregivers of advanced cancer patients. J Clin Oncol 2005 Oct 1; 23(28):6899-907
- Lichtenthal WG, Cruess DG, Prigerson HG. A case for establishing complicated grief as a distinct mental disorder in DSM-V. Clin Psychol Rev 2004 Oct; 24(6):637-62
- Ganzini L, Prigerson H. The other side of the slippery slope. Hastings Cent Rep 2004 Jul-Aug; 34(4):3
- Prigerson HG. Costs to society of family caregiving for patients with end-stage Alzheimer's disease. N Engl J Med 2003 Nov 13; 349(20):1891-2
- Prigerson HG, Jacobs SC. Perspectives on care at the close of life. Caring for bereaved patients: "all the doctors just suddenly go". JAMA 2001 Sep 19; 286(11):1369-76
- Prigerson HG, Shear MK, Jacobs SC, Reynolds CF, Maciejewski PK, Davidson JR, Rosenheck R, Pilkonis PA, Wortman CB, Williams JB, Widiger TA, Frank E, Kupfer DJ, Zisook S. Consensus criteria for traumatic grief. A preliminary empirical test. Br J Psychiatry 1999 Jan; 174:67-73
- Prigerson HG, Bierhals AJ, Kasl SV, Reynolds CF, Shear MK, Day N, Beery LC, Newsom JT, Jacobs S. Traumatic grief as a risk factor for mental and physical morbidity. Am J Psychiatry 1997 May; 154(5):616-23
- Prigerson HG, Frank E, Kasl SV, Reynolds CF, Anderson B, Zubenko GS, Houck PR, George CJ, Kupfer DJ. Complicated grief and bereavement-related depression as distinct disorders: preliminary empirical validation in elderly bereaved spouses. Am J Psychiatry 1995 Jan; 152(1):22-30
