3rd International Conference on Loss, Bereavement & Human Resilience in Israel and the World: Facts, Insights & Implications 2019

The 3rd International Conference on Loss, Bereavement & Human Resilience in Israel and the World: Facts, Insights & Implications 2019 is dedicated to grief, bereavement and end-of- life issues and therapies.

Topics

• Coping processes and mechanisms of dealing with grief and bereavement
• Concepts / theories / models of Grief
• Educating and learning about loss and bereavement
• Qualitative and quantitative research in grief and bereavement
• Religious, social and cultural aspects of grief and mourning
• Mourning customs in a multi-cultural world
• Coping with loss across the life-cycle
• Ethical and legal issues in loss and bereavement
• Traumatic death (homicide, suicide, motor-vehicle accidents, etc.)
• Issues at the end-of- life: Ethical, moral and medical dilemmas
• Dealing with the grief and loss of refugees and immigrants
• Losses after natural disasters or epidemics
• People with special needs coping with loss
• The impact of terror and war related losses
• Grief, mourning and the arts
• Supporting the individual and the community cope with loss and bereavement
• Couple and family therapies
• Individual psychotherapies
• Professionally lead support groups
• Group therapies
• Mind body interventions
• Self-help groups
• Social media and the Internet in coping with loss
• Psychotherapy after loss
• Family losses
• Distance therapy in digital times
• Loss of a sibling
• Loss of a child
• Loss of a parent
• Loss of a spouse or life partner
• Child and adolescent loss
• Loss of a grandchild
• Disenfranchised grief (losses that are not recognized by society
• Ambiguous losses
• Losses and grief over non-bereavement experiences
• Spiritual and religious guidance and accompaniment

Who should Attend

• Faculty and students from the academic and research aspects of the field
• Health care professionals and clinicians
• Persons involved in service delivery and policy development from social services
• Healthcare personnel and policy makers
• The military and police