Albert Cain

Longstanding interests, research and publications span much of child psychopathology, but primary focus has been and remains childhood bereavement.  While a few bereavement papers were devoted to impact of sibling death, SIDS deaths, replacement children, and bereaved parent remarriage, the key set of studies of parentally bereaved children have stemmed from Waves I and II of our Child Bereavement Project, a community sample longitudinal study, including bereaved surviving parent and child structured interviews, standardized assessment measures, and child projective tests.  Recent studies and project publications have focused on peer interactions of parentally bereaved children, and the nature of secondary stressors subsequent to parent death.

Representative Publications

Kalter, N., Lohnes, K.L., Chasin, J., Cain, A.C., Dunning, S., & Rowan, J. (2002-2003).  The adjustment of parentally bereaved children: I. Factors associated with short-term adjustment.  OMEGA:  The Journal of Death & Dying, 46(1), 15-34.

Cain, A.C., (2002).  Children of suicide:  The telling and the knowing.  Psychiatry, 65(2), 124-136.

Saldinger, A., & Cain, A.C. (2005). Deromanticizing anticipated death:  Denial, disbelief, and disconnection in bereaved spouses.  J. of Psychosocial Oncology, 22(3), 69-92.

Cain, A.C., (2006).  Parent suicide:  Pathways of effects into the third generation.  Psychiatry , 69(3), 204-227.

Cain, A.C., & LaFreniere, L.S., (2015). The taunting of parentally bereaved children:  An exploratory study.  Death Studies, 39(4), 219-225.

LaFreniere, L.S., & Cain, A.C. (2015).  Parentally bereaved children and adolescents:  The question of peer support.  Omega:  The Journal of Death and Dying, 71(3), 245-271.

DOI:  10.1177/0030222815575503.