Death Studies Research
Area of research: Trauma and Bereavement
Dr. Cacciatore’s most recent, ongoing study, T.E.A.R.S., Traumatic Experiences And Resiliency Study, is almost ready to launch. To sign up and receive information about this study, please visit http://www.tearstudy.org
See a copy of Dr. Cacciatore’s January 2012 vita public.pdf
Cacciatore’s ATTEND Bereavement Care Model
Few, if any, mindfulness-based bereavement care models exist. The ATTEND (attunement, trust, touch, egalitarianism, nuance, and death education) model is an interdisciplinary paradigm for providers, including physicians, social workers, therapists, nursing staff, and others. Using a case example to enhance the breadth and depth of understanding, this article focuses on attunement as a means to moderate the negative effects of traumatic bereavement, support the framework for posttraumatic growth in the bereaved, improve psychological outcomes for providers, and set the stage for the other aspects of the ATTEND model.
ATTEND Model.pdf in Death Studies
ATTEND Attend graph.pdf
Tripartite Tripartite ATTEND.pdf
Read select articles by Dr. C:
Crisis response in fire depts.pdf
Stillbirth: Patient-centered psychosocial care
The Ultimate Deprivation: Bereaved parents support group
Problematic Emotions and Death
The Death of a Native American Child
Effects of contact on maternal anxiety and depression
Social support and maternal anxiety and depression
Effects of support groups on PTSD symptomatology
Stillbirth: A sociopolitical issue
The death of a baby and marital issues
Boundary ambiguity and the death of a baby
Unique experience of loss after the death of a baby
Below is an important statement with regards to holding and seeing a baby who die during birth:
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes
with the first moments of our first great sorrow,
when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered
and be healed, to have despaired
and have recovered hope."
George Eliot