Bereavement Care

Aims & Scope

The aim of Bereavement Care is to improve our understanding of grief and bereavement and to enhance the quality of care and support provided to bereaved people in all parts of the world.

Bereavement Care was founded in 1982, and has grown to become a unique international journal that sets a high academic and scientific standard.

Accessible and interdisciplinary, it reaches a range of relevant audiences including practitioners, volunteers and students, as well as academics, researchers and all those with an interest in the impact of death on people's lives.

Bereavement Care is published in association with the national voluntary organisation Cruse Bereavement Care, the UK's largest bereavement support charity.

We aim to inform best practice in bereavement care, to discuss the contexts of death and bereavement within societies around the world, and to stimulate dialogue about bereavement from a wide perspective and across disciplines.

We publish leading new research and theory alongside articles describing the best current practices and innovations in service delivery.

We also include personal experiences, case reports and arts features that add new dimensions to our understanding.

We have an international readership and welcome contributions on the needs of people from all cultures, religions and philosophies.

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Nursing, Psychology and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Disenfranchised grief

  Citation: 202

  Authors: Kenneth J

• Bereavement theory: recent developments in our understanding of grief and bereavement

  Citation: 103

  Authors: Christopher

• Complicated grief

  Citation: 88

  Authors: Holly

• Continuing bonds in the age of social networking: Facebook as a modern-day medium

  Citation: 85

  Authors: Elaine

• Ambiguous loss: a complicated type of grief when loved ones disappear

  Citation: 83

  Authors: Pauline, Janet R

• Grief and Trauma in Children and Adolescents

  Citation: 82

  Authors: Robert S

• Complicated grief treatment

  Citation: 76

  Authors: M Katherine

• Culture and grief

  Citation: 61

  Authors: Margaret, Henk

• Rumination following bereavement: an overview

  Citation: 49

  Authors: Maarten C, Margaret S

• Caregiving, bereavement and complicated grief

  Citation: 47

  Authors: Kathrin, Richard