His research focuses on identifying risk and resilience factors that promote adjustment after the experience of adverse life events, especially loss of self-defining aspects of identity. He is especially interested in how different types of events effect emotional expression and regulation, the ability to enact goal directed behavior and the experience of identity continuity in the service of identity maintenance after such events, and subsequent post-event adjustment. In this work, he has been examining the implication for current theories about adjustment to grief and adversity, as well as examining how established treatment techniques might be used to repair post-loss identity disruption in order to promote well-being after the experience of loss.
