Margaret Stroebe, PhD

Margaret Stroebe is Professor Emeritus at both the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, and the Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has specialized in the field of bereavement research for many years. With Henk Schut she developed the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement. Stroebe’s book publications include Bereavement in Later Life: Coping, Attachment, and Developmental Influences with Robert Hansson. She edited Complicated Grief: Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals (with Henk Schut and Jan van den Bout). Her current interests still cover theoretical, empirical, and reviews of the bereavement area (e.g., critical evaluation of coping models, intervention efficacy; implementation of network analyses; health consequences) as well as investigation of the “mini-grief” of homesickness. Stroebe’s honors include an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, the Scientific Research Award of the American Association of Death Education and Counseling (ADEC), and the title in 2011 of Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau, in the Netherlands. Her most recent publication is the Routledge International Handbook of Drug-Related Death Bereavement, co-edited with Dyregrov and Titlestad.