On Thursday, March 30, from 1-5 p.m., the School of Nursing joins more than 1,000 other community-based organizations across the country and in Canada as local hosts for a live via-satellite video teleconference on bereavement issues surrounding children. Sponsored by the Hospice Foundation of America, "Living with Grief: Children Mourning, Mourning Children," the Second Annual National Bereavement Teleconference will be moderated by Cokie Roberts, special correspondent, ABC News.
"The purpose of this event," said Jack Gordon, president of the Hospice Foundation of America, "is to assist professional caregivers, educators and family members in dealing with both the death of a child and the grief children experience when losing a loved one. We want to help caregivers understand the factors involved in these difficult situations so that they may effectively respond to survivors in need."
Through telephone call-ins, participants at Emory and their counterparts at sites nationwide will have an opportunity to exchange comments and questions with a distinguished panel of bereavement educators: Ronald Barrett, associate professor of psychology at Loyola Marymount University; Charles Corr, professor of philosophy, Southern Illinois University; Earl A. Grollman, a noted author and lecturer on children's grief; and Catherine M. Sanders, psychologist and director at the Center for the Study of Separation and Loss (NC). Also on the program is Paul Alexander, composer and performer of songs about bereavement and a clinical social worker at St. Mary's Hospital for Children (NY). Gary Wallace, assistant professor of nursing at Emory, will moderate the discussion after the telecast.
The foundation is sponsoring this teleconference in cooperation with the Association for Death Education and Counseling. The teleconference is being produced by Eisenberg Associates, a Washington, D.C., education consulting firm.
For more information, call Barbara Bruno at 727-6968.