Publications

Dr. Rando has 60 published works pertaining to the clinical aspects of thanatology. Her focus is to provide clear, specific, and practical information to explicate the issue at hand (usually from among mental health issues relating to loss, illness, and trauma) and/or to educate professionals and/or lay audiences on how to most therapeutically contend with or intervene in the issue.

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A Survival Guide For Coping With Traumatic Death

2000

Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning: Theory and Practice in Working with the Dying, Their Loved Ones, and Their Caregivers. Editor. Champaign, IL: Research Press.

Anticipatory Mourning: A Review and Critique of the Literature. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning: Theory and Practice in Working with the Dying, Their Loved Ones, and Their Caregivers. Champaign, IL: Research Press, pp. 17-50.

Anticipatory Mourning: What It Is and Why We Need to Study It. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning: Theory and Practice in Working with the Dying, Their Loved Ones, and Their Caregivers. Champaign, IL: Research Press, pp. 1-13.

On the Experience of Traumatic Stress in Anticipatory and Postdeath Mourning. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning: Theory and Practice in Working with the Dying, Their Loved Ones, and Their Caregivers. Champaign, IL: Research Press, pp. 155-221.

Promoting Healthy Anticipatory Mourning in Intimates of the Life-Threatened or Dying Person. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning: Theory and Practice in Working with the Dying, Their Loved Ones, and Their Caregivers. Champaign, IL: Research Press, pp. 307-378.

The Six Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning: Theory and Practice in Working with the Dying, Their Loved Ones, and Their Caregivers. Champaign, IL: Research Press, pp. 51-101.

Foreword to Men Don't Cry...Women Do: Transcending Gender Stereotypes of Grief by T. Martin and K. Doka. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel, pp. xi-xiv.

Foreword to The Phoenix Phenomenon: Rising From the Ashes of Grief by J. Jozefowski. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., pp. xi-xiii.

1999

Foreword to When A Community Weeps: Case Studies in Group Survivorship edited by E. Zinner and M. Williams. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel, pp. xvii-xxiv.

1997

Vicarious Bereavement. In S. Strack (Ed.), Death and the Quest for Meaning. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., pp. 257-274.

Living and Learning the Reality of a Loved One's Dying: Traumatic Stress and Cognitive Processing in Anticipatory Grief. In K. Doka (Ed.) with J. Davidson, Living With Grief: When Illness Is Prolonged. Washington, DC: Hospice Foundation of America through Taylor & Francis Publishers, pp. 33-50.

Violated Expectations. Journeys, A Newsletter to Help in Bereavement, published by the Hospice Foundation of America. April 1997, pp. 1,3.

Foreword to Death and Trauma: The Traumatology of Grieving edited by C. Figley, B. Bride, and N. Mazza. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis Publishers, pp.xv-xix.

1996

On Treating Those Bereaved By Sudden, Unanticipated Death. In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice, 2 (4), 59-71.

1995

Grief and Mourning: Accommodating to Loss. In H. Wass & R. Neimeyer (Eds.), Dying: Facing the Facts. Third Edition. New York: Taylor & Francis Publishers, pp. 211-241.

Anticipatory Grief and the Child Mourner. In D.Adams & E. Deveau (Eds.), Beyond the Innocence of Childhood. Vol.3. Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Death and Bereavement. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., pp. 5-41.

1994

Complications in Mourning Traumatic Death. In I. Corless, B. Germino, & M. Pittman (Eds.), Dying, Death, and Bereavement: Theoretical Perspectives and Other Ways of Knowing. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, pp. 253-271.

1993

Treatment of Complicated Mourning. Champaign, IL: Research Press.

1992-93

The Increasing Prevalence of Complicated Mourning: The Onslaught Is Just Beginning. Omega, 26 (1), 43-59.

1991

How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies. Updated paperback edition of Grieving: How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies. New York: Bantam Books.

Foreword to Death and Dying: A Bibliographical Survey by S. Southard. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, pp. xv-xviii.

1990

Bereavement. In Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary Conference of the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation. Washington, D.C.

Adult Loss of a Sibling. Caregivers Quarterly, 5 (1), 1-2.

Myths and Their Impact On Grief and Marriage. The Compassionate Friends Newsletter, 13 (3), 1,6-7.

1989

Foreword to Surviving: When Someone You Love Was Murdered by L. Redmond. Clearwater, FL: Psychological Consultation and Education Services, Inc., pp. vii-xi.

Anticipatory Grief. In R. Kastenbaum & B. Kastenbaum (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Death. Phoenix, AZ: The Oryx Press, pp. 12-15.

Grief: Death of a Child. In R. Kastenbaum & B. Kastenbaum (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Death. Phoenix, AZ: The Oryx Press, pp. 131-134.

Children As Grievers: Disadvantages and Treatment Needs. Omsorg (Norwegian journal).

Parental Adjustment to the Loss of a Child. D. Papadatou & C. Papadatos (Eds.), Children and Death. New York: Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, pp. 233-253.

1988

Grieving: How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.

Anticipatory Grief: The Term Is a Misnomer But the Phenomenon Exists. The Journal of Palliative Care, 4 (1-2), 70-73.

The Funeral Director As a Grief Facilitator. In H. Raether(Ed.), The Funeral Director's Practice Management Handbook. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, pp. 14-52.

Foreword to Changing Patterns of Human Existence: Assumptions, Beliefs, and Coping with the Stress of Change by L. LaGrand. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, pp. v-viii.

The Unrecognized Impact of Sudden Death in Terminal Illness and in Positively Progressing Convalescence. The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 24 (1-2), 125-135.

Death and Dying Are Not and Should Not Be Taboo Topics. In A. Kutscher & A. Carr (Eds.), Principles of Thanatology. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, pp. 31-65.

1987

1986

Loss and Anticipatory Grief. Editor. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.

A Comprehensive Analysis of Anticipatory Grief: Perspectives, Processes, Promises, and Problems. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Loss and Anticipatory Grief. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, pp. 3-37.

Introduction. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Loss and Anticipatory Grief. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, pp. xix-xx.

Understanding and Facilitating Anticipatory Grief in the Loved Ones of the Dying. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Loss and Anticipatory Grief. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, pp. 97-130.

Parental Loss of a Child. Editor. Champaign, IL: Research Press.

Death of the Adult Child. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Parental Loss of a Child. Champaign, IL: Research Press, pp. 221-238.

Individual and Couples Treatment Following the Death of a Child. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Parental Loss of a Child. Champaign, IL: Research Press, pp. 341-413.

Introduction. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Parental Loss of a Child. Champaign, IL: Research Press.

Parental Bereavement: An Exception to the General Conceptualizations of Mourning. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Parental Loss of a Child. Champaign, IL: Research Press, pp. 45-58.

The Unique Issues and Impact of the Death of a Child. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Parental Loss of a Child. Champaign, IL: Research Press, pp. 5-43.

1985

Bereaved Parents: Particular Difficulties, Unique Factors, and Treatment Issues. Social Work, 30 (1), 19-23.

Creating Therapeutic Rituals in the Psychotherapy of the Bereaved. Psychotherapy, 22 (2), 236-240.

Parental Bereavement and the Therapeutic Value of the Funeral. The Director, 55 (10), 8-10, 58-60, 62.

1984

Grief, Dying, and Death: Clinical Interventions for Caregivers. Champaign, IL: Research Press.

National EMS Burnout Survey. Co-Authored by R. Herbison, T. Rando, T. Plante & G. Mitchell.Journal of Emergency Medical Services, 9 (1), 48-50.

1983

An Investigation of Grief and Adaptation in Parents Whose Children Have Died From Cancer. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 8 (1), 3-20.

The National EMS Burnout Study: I. The Questionnaire. Co-Authored by G. Mitchell, R. Herbison, T. Rando & T. Plante. Journal of Emergency Medical Services, 8 (1), 55-58.

Topics in Parental Bereavement. Guest Editor, Forum Newsletter: Forum for Death Education & Counseling, 6 (8).

The Particular Difficulties of Bereaved Parents: Unique Factors and Treatment Issues. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Forum Newsletter: Forum for Death Education & Counseling, 6, (8), 1-3.

Grief in Parents of Pediatric Cancer Victims. In T.A. Rando (Ed.), Forum Newsletter: Forum for Death Education & Counseling, 6, (8), 7-8.

Creation of Rituals in Psychotherapy. In N.Kollar (Ed.), Forum Newsletter: Forum for Death Education & Counseling, 6 (7), 8-9.

1981

Concepts of Death, Dying, Grief and Loss. In U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Hospice Education Program for Nurses. (Publication No. HRA 81-27). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

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