Kristen
Coppola, Ph.D.
Ph.D.,
Kent State University
M.A.,
Kent State University
B.A.,
Kutztown University
Office: Howard Hall, Room 136
Phone:
732-571-3447
Email:
kcoppola@monmouth.edu
Regularly Taught Courses:
Introduction to Psychology
Psychology of Adulthood and Aging
Experimental Methods in Psychology
Death and Dying
Research Interests:
Dr. Coppola’s research focuses on medical decision making at the end of life and end of life issues. In addition, she is interested in examining the adoption of special needs children, specifically, the factors that are related to disruption of adoptions.
Selected Works:
Scholarly Articles:
(* indicates student co-author)
Ditto, P. H., Smucker, W. D., Danks, J. H., Jacobson, J. A., Houts, R. M., Fagerlin, A., Coppola, K. M., & Gready, R. M. (2003). The stability of older adults’ preferences for life-sustaining medical treatment. Health Psychology, 22, 605-615.
Coppola, K. M., & Strohmetz, D. B. (2002). How is death and dying addressed in introductory psychology textbooks? Death Studies, 26, 689-699.
Coppola, K. M., & Trotman, F. K. (2002). Dying and death: Decisions at the end of life. In F. K. Trotman and C. M. Brody (Eds.), Psychotherapy and counseling with older women: Cross-cultural, family, and end-of-life issues. New York: Springer.
Coppola, K. M., Ditto, P. H., Danks, J. H., & Smucker, W. D. (2001). Accuracy of primary physicians' and hospital-based physicians' predictions of elderly outpatients' treatment preferences with and without advance directives. Archives of Internal Medicine, 161, 431-440
Ditto, P. H., Danks, J. H., Smucker, W. D., Bookwala, J., Coppola, K. M. et al.(2001). Advance directives as acts of communication: A randomized controlled trial. Archives of Internal Medicine, 161, 421-430.
Lockhart, L. K., Bookwala, J., Fagerlin, A., Coppola, K. M., Ditto, P. H., Danks, J. H., Smucker, W. D. (2001). Older adults’ attitudes toward death: Links to perceptions of health and concerns about end-of-life issues. Omega, 43, 331-347
Lockhart, L. K., Ditto, P. H., Danks, J. H., Coppola, K. M., & Smucker, W. D. (2001). The stability of older adults’ judgments of fates better and worse than death. Death Studies, 25, 299-317.
Miller, S., Mor, V., Gage, B., & Coppola, K. (2001): Hospice and its role in improving end of life care. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Springer Publishing, New York, NY.
Gready, R. M., Ditto, P. H., Danks, J. H., Coppola, K. M., Lockart, L. K., & Smucker, W. D. (2000). Actual and perceived stability of preferences for life-sustaining treatment. Journal of Clinical Ethics, 11, 334-346.
Smucker WD, Houts R, Danks JH, Ditto PH, Fagerlin A, Coppola KM. Modal preferences predict elderly patients' life-sustaining treatment choices as well as patients' chosen surrogates do (2000). Medical Decision Making. 20: 271-280.
Coppola KM, Bookwala J, Ditto PH, Lockhart LK, Danks JH, Smucker WD. Elderly adults' preferences for life-sustaining treatments: the role of impairment, prognosis, and pain (1999). Death Studies, 23, 617-634.
Fowler, J., Coppola, K.M., & Teno, J.M. (1999). Methodological challenges for measuring quality care at the end of life. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 17, 114-119.
Teno, J.M. & Coppola, K.M. (1999). For every numerator, you need a denominator: A simple statement but key to measuring the quality of care of the "dying." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 17, 109-118.
Coppola, K. M., Danks, J. H., Ditto, P. H., & Smucker, W. D. (1998). Perceived benefits and burdens of life-sustaining treatments in elderly adults, physicians, and young adults. Journal of Ethics, Law, and Aging, 4, 3-13.
Bookwala, J., Coppola, K. M., Fagerlin, A., Ditto, P. H., Danks, J. H., Smucker, W. D. (2001). Gender differences in preferences for life-sustaining medical treatments among community- dwelling older adults. Death Studies, 25, 127-149.
Miller S., Mor V., Coppola K., Teno J., Laliberte L., and Petrisek A. (1998): The Medicare Hospice Benefit’s Influence on Dying in Nursing Homes. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 1(4): 367-376.
Additional Information:
Dr. Coppola cares deeply about the most vulnerable people in the world. To that end, she has adopted 2 children who have Down Syndrome, works with her husband to help others adopt special needs children, and travels to orphanages to help bring awareness to neglected children. She is hospice volunteer and in her spare time she trains to run half marathons.
