Michael Caserta
- College of Nursing
- Professor
- Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program, Center on Aging
Research Interests
Michael Caserta, Ph.D. has published widely in the areas of spousal bereavement, family caregiving, and health promotion and self-care. His recent work involved the development of the Pathfinders Program (funded by the Ben B. and Iris M. Margolis Foundation), which focused on ways to improve the self-care practices of older widows and widowers. Dr. Caserta is currently the principal investigator on a 5-year study (funded by the National Institute on Aging) that is testing a bereavement intervention based on Stroebe and Schut’s (1999) dual process coping model.
Recent Publications
Caserta, M., Lund, D., Utz, R., & de Vries, B. (2009). Stress-related growth among the recently bereaved. Aging & Mental Health, 13, 463-476.
Caserta, M., & Lund, D. (2007). Toward the development of an Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL): Guided by the dual process model of coping with bereavement. Death Studies, 31, 505-535.
Freeman, L., Caserta, M.S. , Lund. D., Rossa, S., Dowdy, A., Partenheimer, A. (2006) Music thanatology: prescriptive harp music as palliative care for the dying patient. American
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 23, 100-104.
