Cindy Moore, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry, and the Director of the Marjorie E. Korff Parenting At a Challenging Time (PACT) Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. She is also an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. She specializes in helping adults with a serious medical illness support their children’s adjustment and coping. She also provides psychotherapy to adults and children and has a particular interest in working with people who are grieving a loss.
Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance. The well-known five stages of grief, introduced by Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in 1969, have become the way many people...