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29. Lazzara, J., Thieleman, K., & Cacciatore, J. (in press). “The quiet, beautiful, intentional space to grieve and remember.” Wellbeing, Space and Society. 

28. Lacey, E., Thieleman, K., & Cacciatore, J. (under review). Diagnostic coloniality and the medicalization of bereavement. Social Work. 

27. Thieleman, K., Cacciatore, J., & Mangiapane, V. (2025). “I would feel misunderstood and diminished:” Perceived helpfulness of a grief diagnosis among grievers. Death Studies. Advance online publication.

26. Thieleman, K., Cacciatore, J., Frances, A., & Thomas, S. (2024). Naltrexone for Prolonged Grief Disorder: A response to Prigerson et al. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 32(25), 637-638.

25. Cacciatore, J., Gorman, R., Thieleman, K., & Sullivan, M. (2024). “I don’t feel judged. I just feel love:” Perceptions of animals as support for grievers. Society & Animals. Advance online publication.

24. Thieleman, K., Cacciatore, J., & Frances, A. (2023). Rates of Prolonged Grief Disorder: Considering relationship to the person who died and cause of death. Journal of Affective Disorders, 339, 832-837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.07.094

23. Zhang, N., Sandler, I., Wolchik, S., O’Hara, K., & Thieleman, K. (2023). Self-compassion for caregivers of children in parentally bereaved families: A theoretical model and intervention example. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. 26, 430-444.

22. Thieleman, K., Cacciatore, J., & Thomas, S. (2023). Impairing social connectedness: The dangers of treating grief with naltrexone. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 63(3), 267-275. 

21. Thieleman, K., & Cacciatore, J. (2022). “I grieve because I loved her:” Bereaved parents’ perceptions of a mindfulness-based retreat. Death Studies, 46(8), 1992-2002. 

20. Thieleman, K., Cacciatore, J., & Gorman, R. (2022). “Perhaps something of beauty can grow:” Experiences of care farming for grief. Death Studies, 46, 2435-2444.

19. Sandler, I., Tein, J.-Y., Zhang, N., Wolchik, S., & Thieleman, K. (2021). Grief as a predictor of long-term risk for suicide ideation and/or attempts of parentally bereaved children. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34(6), 1159-1170.

18. Cacciatore, J., Thieleman, K., Fretts, R., & Barnes, L. (2021). What is good grief support: Exploring the actors and actions in social support after traumatic grief. PLOS ONE, 16(5), e025324

17. Thieleman, K., & Cacciatore, J. (2020). Effectiveness of a mindfulness-based retreat on distress and well-being in bereaved parents. Research on Social Work Practice, 30(7), 770-782.

16. Cacciatore, J., Gorman, R., & Thieleman, K. (2020). Evaluating care farming as a means to care for those in trauma and grief. Health & Place, 62, 102281.

15. Thieleman, K., & Cacciatore, J. (2020). “As if nothing happened:” Experiences of bereaved parents in Romania. OMEGA, 81,4, 685-705. 

14. Thieleman, K., & Cacciatore, J. (2019). “Experiencing life for the first time:” The effects of a traumatic death course on social work student mindfulness and empathy. Social Work Education, 38(4), 470-484.

13. Cacciatore, J., Thieleman, K., Lieber, A., Blood, C., & Goldman, R. (2019). The long road to farewell: The needs of families with dying children. OMEGA, 78(4), 404-420.

12. Cacciatore, J., & Thieleman, K. (2019). Normal complications and abnormal assumptions after perinatal death. The American Journal of Maternal-Child Nursing, 44, 6-12. 

11. Wallace, C., Thieleman, K., Cimino, A., & Rueda, H. (2017). Ethics at the end of life: A teaching tool. Journal of Social Work Education, 53(2), 327-338.

10. Thieleman, K., Wallace, C., Cimino, A., & Rueda, H. (2016). Exhaust all measures: Ethical issues in pediatric end-of-life care. Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, 12(3), 289-306.

9. Cimino, A. N., Mendoza, T., Thieleman, K., Shively, R., & Kunz, K. (2015). Women re-entering the community: Understanding addiction and trauma-related characteristics of recidivism. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 25, 468-476.

8. Thieleman, K., Cacciatore, J., & Hill, P. (2014). Traumatic bereavement and mindfulness: A preliminary study of mental health outcomes using the ATTEND model. Clinical Social Work Journal, 42(3), 260-268.

7. Thieleman, K., & Cacciatore, J. (2014). Witness to suffering: Mindfulness and compassion fatigue amongst traumatic bereavement volunteers. Social Work, 59(1), 34-41.

6. Thieleman, K., & Cacciatore, J. (2014). When a child dies: A critical analysis of grief-related controversies in DSM-5. Research on Social Work Practice, 24, 114-122.

5. Cacciatore, J., & Thieleman, K. (2014). We rise out of the cradle into the grave: An ethnographic exploration of ritual, mourning, and death on a Hutterite colony. OMEGA, 69(4), 357-379.

4. Cacciatore, J., Thieleman, K., Killian, M., & Tavasolli, K., (2014). Braving human suffering: Death education and its relationship to empathy and mindfulness. Social Work Education, 34, 91-109.

3. Cacciatore, J., Thieleman, K., Osborn, J., & Orlowski, K. (2014). Of the soul and suffering: Mindfulness-based interventions and bereavement. Clinical Social Work Journal, 42(3), 269-281.

2. Thieleman, K., & Cacciatore, J. (2013). The DSM-5 and the bereavement exclusion: A call for critical evaluation. Social Work, 58(3), 277-280.

1. Cacciatore, J., & Thieleman, K. (2012). Pharmacological treatment following traumatic bereavement: A case series. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 17(6), 557-579.