Poster Presentations

A Poster is a visual format to display projects and interests, enhanced by appropriate handouts and personal interaction with the presenter at the times indicated.

Poster Session I Thursday, April 16, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Presentations: 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Presentations: (optional) 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Gender Differences in Drug Responses to End of Life Medications
Stephen Krau, PhD

Ancient Egyptian, Modern Egyptian, and Current American Views on Death and Bereavement
Susana McCune, BA

Footprints Family Support Group: A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Family Bereavement Program
Nancy Ludwick, RN, BSN

Developing a Hospital Bereavement Program — From Start to Success
Diana Ruffin, MSW

Healing a 40+ Year-Old Father-Loss Through Art Making
Jill Baratta, MFA

And We Talk to the Animals: The Gift of Pets and the Pain of Loss
Richard Gilbert, PhD, DMin, CT

Doggone Grief
Brenda Brown, BA, CT, GC-C

Testing a Model of Prolonged/Complicated Grief
Michael Wilkins, BS

Exploring the Impact on Individuals Who Have Experienced Multiple Losses Through Death Over Time
Pamela Elmslie, MA

Techniques for Helping Overwhelmed Bereaved
Wayne Leaver, PhD, Amber Mondell, MA

Loss in Translation: Developing Meaningful & Transformational Relationships With Grievers
Shelley Cohen Konrad, PhD, MSW

Afterlife and the Atheist
Gordon Thornton, PhD

Perspectives on Recovery From Parental Suicide in Childhood: Insights and Preliminary Findings
Martin Loy, PhD, Amy Boelk, ABD, MSW

How to Communicate at Difficult Times Across the Cancer Continuum
Mary Hughes, MS, RN CNS

Meet Me on Saturn: Working With Non-Ordinary States
Barbara Joy, MC, FT

Adolescents and Technology: Coping With Loss in the Digital World
Carla Sofka, PhD, MSW

Robin Bush: A Political Family’s Lasting Grief for a Child
Harold Ivan Smith, DMin

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Bereavement Support Group
Heather K. Whittington, BA

Joy Through Movement: Using Yoga and Tai Chi Chih to Work Through Grief
Becky Watkins MPS, CT, EAP

Mythology and the Grief Healing Process
Terry Barsano, MA

Partnering for Children’s Grief Support: A Highmark Caring Place Initiative
Terese Vorsheck, MA

The Moral Experiences of Bereaved Fathers
Susan Cadell; Mary Ellen MacDonald; William Afflect, MA, Reseracher

Updated: January 6, 2009