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The Center for Research on End-of-Life Care offers many helpful resources to assist bereaved people, patients,
families, clinicians and researchers.
For bereaved individuals we have validated a brief scale to help people gauge their adjustment based on data from
thousands of people who have completed this measure. Data provides information on the characteristics of an
adaptive, unproblematic response as well as the features of more problematic adjustment.
Grief Intensity Scale
After answering a few simple prompts, patients can assess their risk for prolonged grief disorder and identify if
they should seek assistance from a mental health professional.
For clinicians, we offer brief, instructive tutorials to assist in making differential diagnoses for bereavement
reactions. These include video-clips of standardized patients who describe their bereavement reactions.
Request PG-13
Submit a request to download our most popular and robust diagnostic tool for free.
Finding Our Way: Together While Apart
Our new COVID-19 grief resources website.
Living Memory Home Online Bereavement Resource Beta Testing
Sign up for beta testing our newly developed online bereavement resource. For people who live within the NY metropolitan area only (e.g., Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens)
Prolonged Grief Disorder
Tutorial
Resources for Clinicians
This library of educational videos can guide clinicians through sample interactions with patients suffering from
various stages of grief.
For researchers, we offer several of our psychometrically validated measures that were developed and tested in
NIH-funded research. These include our PG-13 measure that maps onto diagnostic criteria for Prolonged Grief
Disorder, versions in multiple languages, versions for terminally ill patients and their family caregivers, and
versions for children and young adults. We also have measures of USAcculturation, our measure of Stressful
Caregiving Adult Reactions to Experiences of Dying (SCARED), our Peace and Equanimity in the Cancer Experience
(PEACE) scale, The Human Connection (THC) scale, the Yale Evaluation of Suicidality Scale, and the Partner
Dependency Scale, among other measures.
These tools have been published in peer-reviewed journals and are available free for download and use in ongoing and
future research projects.
Resources for Researchers
For researchers, we offer several of our psychometrically validated measures that were developed and tested in
NIH-funded research. These include our PG-13 measure that maps onto diagnostic criteria for Prolonged Grief
Disorder, versions in multiple languages, versions for terminally ill patients and their family caregivers, and
versions for children and young adults. We also have measures of USAcculturation, our measure of Stressful
Caregiving Adult Reactions to Experiences of Dying (SCARED), our Peace and Equanimity in the Cancer Experience
(PEACE) scale, The Human Connection (THC) scale, the Yale Evaluation of Suicidality Scale, and the Partner
Dependency Scale, among other measures.
These tools have been published in peer-reviewed journals and are available free for download and use in ongoing and
future research projects.