Continuing Bonds in Bereavement: New Directions for Research and Practice

Dennis Klass, PhD, is on the editorial boards of Death Studies and Omega: Journal of Death and Dying and is professor emeritus at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents, coauthor of Dead but not Lost: Grief Narratives in Religious Traditions, and coeditor of Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief. A licensed psychologist, he has been active in the study of death, dying, and bereavement since 1968.

Edith Maria Steffen, PsychD, is a lecturer in counseling psychology at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. Her research focuses on sense of presence experiences in bereavement and meaning-oriented group grief therapy. She has published articles in journals such as Death Studies, Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, and Mental Health, Religion & Culture, and has contributed a number of chapters to anthologies.