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Camille B. Wortman

Researcher at Stony Brook University

Publications -  95
Citations -  20763

Camille B. Wortman is an academic researcher from Stony Brook University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Grief & Coping (psychology). The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 95 publications receiving 20079 citations. Previous affiliations of Camille B. Wortman include State University of New York System & University of Michigan.

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Social factors in psychopathology: stress, social support, and coping processes.

TL;DR: This review has examined some of the important empirical results from recent studies of stress, support, and coping, and discussed ways in which these new understandings have informed long-standing attempts to explain group differences in emotional functioning.
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Attributions of blame and coping in the "real world": severe accident victims react to their lot.

TL;DR: Analysis of victims' attributions of causality for their accidents and their ability to cope with severe misfortune suggested that blaming another and feeling that one could have avoided the accident were successful predictors of poor coping; self-blame was a successful predictor of good coping.
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The myths of coping with loss.

TL;DR: It is maintained that mistaken assumptions held about the process of coping with loss fail to acknowledge the variability that exists in response to loss, and may lead others to respond to those who have endured loss in ways that are unhelpful.
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Resilience to Loss and Chronic Grief: A Prospective Study From Preloss to 18-Months Postloss

TL;DR: Key hypotheses in the literature pertaining to chronic grief and resilience were tested by identifying the preloss predictors of each pattern and chronic grief was associated with preloss dependency and resilience with pre Loss acceptance of death and belief in a just world.