Heather Servaty-Seib is a licensed psychologist and Professor in the Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program at Purdue University where her primary scholarly areas include adolescent and college student bereavement, loss/gain impact of life events, and support and communication in the grieving process. She is currently serving as the Senior Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning at Purdue. Servaty-Seib’s scholarship has supported the development of college student grief absence policies at Purdue and other U.S. institutions and she is working with Evermore on “HELP,” a national campaign advocating for student-focused bereavement policies at institutions of higher education. Her grief and loss research team developed the Perceived Impact of Life Event Scale, a measure that uses the gain/loss framework (i.e., all life events involve both gains and losses) to assess the multidimensional impact of single life events. She is a past president of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) and received the ADEC 2013 Death Educator Award. Servaty-Seib has co-edited a volume entitled Assisting Bereaved College Students, an edited volume of narratives by grieving college students entitled We Get It, and most recent the 3rd edition of the Handbook of Thanatology. She is on the editorial boards of four academic journals including three of the top research journals of the field of thanatology.
