Arrive a few days early and enhance your conference experience by participating in one or more of the pre-conference sessions being offered. These specially designed workshops provide an in-depth look at the topics and issues of greatest importance in grief and bereavement.
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Introduction to Thanatology: Dying, Death, and Bereavement
Faculty: William G. Hoy, DMIn FTGrief Counseling
Faculty: Benjamin Wolfe, MEd, LICSW, FTComplicated Bereavement and Grief Therapy
Faculty: Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Suicide Bereavement
Presenter: John R. Jordan, PhD, FTMourning Losses in a Family
Presenter: Justine van Lawick, PhD
8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Clinical Applications of the Continuing Bond with the Deceased: Individual, Family and Cultural Considerations
Presenters: Ruth Malkinson, PhD; Simon Shimshon Rubin, PhDComplicated Grief after Traumatic Events
Presenter: Therese Rando, PhD
8:30 a.m. - Noon
Teen Grief
Presenter: David E. Balk, PhD FTEthics in Clinical Settings
Presenter: Clint Moore III, MDiv, PhD, BCC, FT
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Children's Grief
Presenter: Linda E. Goldman, MS, LCPC, NBCC, FTDisenfranchised Grief
Presenter: Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, FT
8:30 a.m. - Noon
Exercising Our Therapeutic Imaginations: Techniques for Reflective Practice and Renewal
Presenter: Sandra L. Bertman, PhD, FTParental Grief
Presenter: Stephen Fleming, PhD
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Music of the Soul: Composing Life out of Loss
Presenter: Joy S. Berger, DMA, BCC, MT-BCDisaster Response
Presenter: Maria Helena Franco