Growth and Development Across the Life Span

Grief Counseling

End of Life Care and Interventions

Palliative Care

Grief, Complicated Grief, Bereavement

Pre-Death Grief in Alzheimer Caregivers as a Predictor of Post-Death Grief

Pre-Death Grief Interventions in Dementia Caregivers

Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention in Emerging Adulthood

Thanatologist Certification - Association for Death Education and Counseling 

End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Graduate and Undergraduate Certification Myers

Briggs Type Trainer Certification - Type Resources, Inc.

Basic Life Support - American Heart Association

Ott, C.H., & Lueger, R.J. (2002). Patterns of change in mental health status during the first two years of spousal bereavement. Death Studies , 26(5), 387-411.

Ott, C.H., & Haertlein, C. (2002). Social norms marketing: A prevention strategy to decrease high-risk college student drinking. Nursing Clinics of North America , 37, 351-364.

Ott, C.H. (2003). The impact of complicated grief on mental and physical health at various points in the bereavement process. Death Studies , 27, 249-272.

Ott, C.H, Haertlein, C., & Craig, D. (2003). A student affairs and faculty collaborative healthassessment and intervention initiative. Journal of College Health , 51(6), 257-261.

Ott, C.H., & Doyle. L.H. (2005). An evaluation of the small group norms challenging model: Changing substance use misperceptions in five urban high schools. The High School Journal , 88, 45-55.

Ott, C.H., Doyle, L., & Tarantino, S. (2004). The impact of a university teaching project withurban high school students on the development of cultural competence. Journal of InternationalNursing Scholarship , 1 (1), Article 22.

Ott, C.H., Cashin, S.E., & Altekruse, M. (2005). The college tobacco survey. Journal of American College Health , 53,231-238.

Ott, C.H., Plach, S., Hewitt, J., Cashin, S., Kelber, S.T., Cisler, R., & Weis, J. (2005). Smoking-related health behaviors and readiness to quit.   AAOHN Journal , 6, 487-495.

Ott, C.H., Reynolds, S., Schlidt, A. (2006). A guide to supporting family Caregivers through the Alzheimer's disease trajectory: Grief and personal growth.

Ott, C.H., Lueger, R., Kelber, S., & Prigerson, H. (2007). Spousal Bereavement in Older Adults: Common, Resilient and Chronic Grief with Defining Characteristics . Journal of Mental and Nervous Diseases , 195, 332-341.

Ott, C.H., Sander, S., & Kelber, S. (2007).  Grief and personal growth experiences of spouses and adult child caregivers of person's with Alzheimer's disease. The Gerontologist , 47, 798-809.

Sanders, S., Ott, C. H., Kelber, S. (2008). The Experience of high levels of grief in caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease. Death Studies, 31, 495-523.

Ott, C., Kelber, S., & Blaylock, M. (in press). Easing the Way for Spouse Caregivers of Persons with Dementia: A Pilot Feasibility Study of a Grief Intervention, Research in Gerontological Nursing .

Other publication:

Ott, C.H., Reynolds, S., Schlidt, A. (2006). A guide to supporting family caregivers through the Alzheimer's disease trajectory: Grief and personal growth.

Mulligan, J. & Ott, C. (2009) “Grief Among caregivers: A comparison of two measures of grief.” Poster Presentation. Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting. Atlanta , November.

Ott, C (2009). “Predictors of grief reactions among dementia caregivers: A prospective study of bereavement,” Paper presentation, 31 st Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Dallas, April.

Doyl Doyle, L. & Ott, C. (2009). “Interdisciplinary collaboration: The route to innovative organizational possibilities.” Paper presentation. Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego , April.

Ott, C. (2008). A Qualitative Examination of High Levels of Grief Experience in Spouses and Adult Children Caregivers of Person's with Alzheimer's Disease, Association for Death Education and Counseling, Montreal , Quebec , May.

Ott, C. (2006). A comparison of three clusters of bereaved older adult spouses, Paper Presentation, 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Tampa, FLA., March.

Ott, C. (2006). Grief and Personal Growth in Spouses and Adult Children of Person's with Alzheimer's Disease, State Alzheimer's Association Conference, Green Bay, WI., May, 2006 and St. Louis University Regional Alzheimer's Center, April.

Ott, C. (2006). Personal Growth in Spouses and Adult Children of Person's with Alzheimer's Disease, Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November.

Ott, C. (2005). "Patterns of Change in Spousal Bereavement: A Growth Model Analysis." Paper Presentation 27th Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling  Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 30.