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Camille Wortman
OccupationProfessor of Social Health Psychology
SpousePaul Wortman
AwardsDistinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution in Psychology
Academic background
Alma materCarnegie Institute of Technology, Duke University
Academic work
InstitutionsStony Brook University

Camille Wortman (born July 2,1947)[1]is clinical health psychologist known for her research on grief and coping in response to traumatic events and loss. She is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University.[2]

Wortman received an award from the Science Directorate at the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. This award represents and acknowledges woman's achievements in the field of science.[3] She received the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution in Psychology from the American Psychological Association.[1]

Wortman has written books including, Treating Traumatic Bereavement: A Practitioner's Guide;[4] Touches upon copping mechanisms on dealing with grief after the sudden death of a loved one.[5] Spousal Bereavement in Late Life;[6] adjusting after losing a partner late in life, pertaining to widowhood.[7]

Biography

Wortman was born in a town near Pittsburg Pennsylvania.[1] She had no plans of pursuing academics until she was accepted into Carnegie Institute of Technology under a special program in 1965.[1]

Wortman enrolled in Daryl Bern's social psychology course; she was given a summer job at the college through him and she began her career in psychology.[1] Wortman transferred to Duke University her sophomore year; and graduated summa cum laude in 1969.[1] Wortman was accepted into the grad school social psychology program at Duke University;[1] where she received her BA and PhD.[8] Wortman began her research in how people deal with situations our outcomes that they have no control over;[1] this led to her work on the Wortman and Brehm model.[1]

She was given a position at North Western University.[1] Wortman conducted research on human helplessness, pertaining to people copping with paralysis; she collaborated with Ronnie Janoff-Bulman.[1] Wortman continued her research in working with people experiencing extreme life crises.[1] Wortman focused on clinical training relating to cancer patients and currently trains workers going into hospice care.[1] Through this research Wortman found that the Wortman Brehm model was not accurate.[1] Instead Wortman found that meaning in tragic events and social support can alter how people deal with crises.[1]

Wortman recieved the following Grants: Stress and Predictors of Mental Health Among Physicians, 1985-1987; and Widowhood, Bereavement and Coping, 1991-1993.[9]

Research

Wortman's research focuses on how humans deal with grief and stress.[3] Wortman's major topic of her research is bereavement, when people suddenly lose a loved one.[3] Whether someone loses a parent, spouse, or a child her main interest of study is how people cope with traumatic deaths.[3] Wortman's research has sparked attention in creating interventions for people impacted by certain crises. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wortman has created a list of helpful resources for people currently coping with the death of a loved one.[10] Wortman has gone against data that supports the claim of mentally healthy people must experience distress after the loss of a loved one.[11] Dr. Wortman reviews new data rebutting the assumption that everyone who is mentally healthy will undergo such a period of distress. Friends or family members may find such people cold and unloving; therapists may think they are denying their own feelings. But Dr. Wortman argues that many or most may be exhibiting a psychological strength that allows them to go through mourning relatively unshaken. To be sure, they are sad; they cry and miss the loved one. But they do not exhibit intense distress, they manage to carry on their lives with little difficulty and they never become deeply depressed. Grief Is 'Borne Lightly'

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Representative Publications

  • Bonanno, G. A., Wortman, C. B., Lehman, D. R., Tweed, R. G., Haring, M., Sonnega, J., ... & Nesse, R. M. (2002). Resilience to loss and chronic grief: a prospective study from preloss to 18-months postloss. Journal of personality and social psychology, 83(5), 1150.
  • Kessler, R. C., Price, R. H., & Wortman, C. B. (1985). Social factors in psychopathology: Stress, social support, and coping processes. Annual review of psychology, 36(1), 531-572.
  • McIntosh, D. N., Silver, R. C., & Wortman, C. B. (1993). Religion's role in adjustment to a negative life event: coping with the loss of a child. Journal of personality and social psychology, 65(4), 812.
  • Wortman, C. B., & Brehm, J. W. (1975). Responses to uncontrollable outcomes: An integration of reactance theory and the learned helplessness model. In Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 8, pp. 277-336). Academic Press.
  • Wortman, C. B., & Silver, R. C. (1989). The myths of coping with loss. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 57(3), 349.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Camille Wortman: Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: 1980". American Psychologist. 36 (1): 84–87. 1981. doi:10.1037/h0078033. ISSN 1935-990X.
  2. ^ "Camille Wortman | Department of Psychology". www.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  3. ^ a b c d "Camille B. Wortman". faculty.webster.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  4. ^ Pearlman, Laurie A.,. Treating traumatic bereavement : a practitioner's guide. Wortman, Camille B.,, Feuer, Catherine A.,, Farber, Christine H.,, Rando, Therese A.,. New York. ISBN 978-1-4625-1317-8. OCLC 851035000.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Pearlman, Laurie Anne; Wortman, Camille B.; Feuer, Catherine A.; Farber, Christine H.; Rando, Therese A. (2014-01-13). Treating Traumatic Bereavement: A Practitioner's Guide. Guilford Publications. ISBN 978-1-4625-1551-6.
  6. ^ Spousal bereavement in late life. Carr, Deborah S., Nesse, Randolph M., Wortman, Camille B. New York: Springer Pub. Co. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8261-4245-0. OCLC 287302266.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^ PhD, Deborah S. Carr; MD, Randolph M. Nesse; PhD, Camille B. Wortman (2005-11-08). Spousal Bereavement in Late Life. Springer Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8261-4245-0.
  8. ^ "Camille Wortman, PhD: Hidden No More - Northwestern University". www.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  9. ^ "Camille B. Wortman - Grants". neurotree.org. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  10. ^ Sloat, Sarah. "Covid-19: A grief expert explains how to process the "unfathomable amount of loss"". Inverse. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  11. ^ Goleman, Daniel (1989-08-08). "New Studies Find Many Myths about Mourning (Published 1989)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-07.


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