Deanna is the Clinical Educator – Social Worker for Agrace Hospice Care, a not-for-profit hospice based in Fitchburg, WI that serves South Central Wisconsin. She holds a doctorate in social work, is licensed as an Advanced Practice Social Worker, and is certified in Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work, with additional certification in advanced dementia…
Stephanie Wladkowski s the Larry & Patty Benz Professor and a Professor of Social Work at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Wladkowski has several years of clinical practice experience as an independent licensed social worker in hospice and palliative care, which directly informs her research and teaching in health, aging, interprofessional education, and end-of-life care….
William Worden is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and holds academic appointments at the Harvard Medical School and at the Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology in California. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study, based at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Recipient of five major National Institutes of Health grants,…
Paul Rosenblatt is emeritus professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. He has published 14 books, including African American Grief (with Beverly R. Wallace); The Impact of Racism on African-American Families; Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems; Parent Grief: Narratives of Loss and Relationship; Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child;…
E.K. (Ted) Rynearson is a clinical psychiatrist and researcher who founded the section of psychiatry at the Mason Clinic in Seattle, WA. In addition to full-time clinical practice, he has served on the faculty of the University of Washington as a clinical professor of psychiatry. For over 30 years, Rynearson has maintained a particular clinical…
Hannah Sherebrin is an art therapist, former RN, ATR-BC, OATR, and supervisor. She specializes in trauma, bereavement, losses, and depression with adult and senior populations. She provides palliative care in home hospice situations for her clients.
Jocelyn Smith Lee is an assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her research examines the health disparities of violent injury and violent death and works to understand how losing loved ones to homicide shapes the health, well-being, development, and family relationships of Black males and their…
Elizabeth-Ann Viscione is a doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at the University of Rhode Island. Her professional interests include health psychology, loss, and addressing critical incident traumatic stress with first responders. Her research focuses on sexual functioning, especially within women and individuals with gynecologic conditions.
Beverly Wallace is currently the associate professor of Congregational and Community Care at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. Wallace has authored several articles and book chapters including Narratives of Grieving African Americans About Racism in the Lives of Deceased Family Members; A Womanist Legacy of Trauma, Grief, and Loss: Reframing the Notion of the Strong Black…
Michelle Webb is a clinical assistant professor at Duke University School of Nursing. She has diverse nursing practice and leadership experience and has held executive leadership positions in behavioral/psychiatric-mental health, home health, acute care, and hospice care. Webb has nearly 20 years of experience in hospice as a clinician and leader. She is a member…
Joah Williams is an associate professor at the University of Memphis. He has broad research and clinical interests in the area of traumatic stress, extending this work into the related areas of community violence and traumatic grief. His research focuses on psychosocial and health consequences of trauma exposure and the development of traumatic stress prevention…
Ruth Malkinson is the director of training at the International Laboratory for the Study of Loss, Bereavement and Resilience, University of Haifa. Director of the Israeli Center of REBT, she is past president of the Israeli Association for Family and Marital Therapy. Her fields of expertise are grief, trauma and bereavement and RE-CBT. Malkinson maintains…
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