Program 8th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society

15-18 July 2008, Hilton on the Park, Melbourne [updated 26/6/08]

 

Monday 14 July  | Tuesday 15 July  | Wednesday 16 July  | Thursday 17 July  | Friday 18 July 

 

Tuesday 15 July

 

Meeting Rooms

 

Time

 

Ballroom 1

 

Ballroom 2

 

Ballroom 3

 

Stradbroke

 

Latrobe

 

Huntingfield

 

Delacombe

 

Ballroom Foyer

Poster sessions

 

 

7.30am – 5pm

Registration and Exhibition

9am - 10.30am

Introduction

Christopher Hall

 

Welcome to country

Joy Murphy AO

 

Official Opening

Walter Mikac

 

Keynote Speaker 1

 

Emeritus Prof. Beverley Raphael

 

Death, Loss and Life: Searching Sciences

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.30 -11.00 am

Morning Tea

 

11.00 - 12.30pm

 

 

11.00am- 11.20am

 

 

 

 

 

Symposium A

Cognitive mechanisms of Complicated Grief

 

Symposium Chair - Bryant, R

 

 

 

 

Distinctiveness of CG phenomenology from anxiety, depression and posttraumatic symptomatology and mechanism similarities - Golden, A. & Dalgleigh, T

 

 

 

When representations of a deceased spouse interfere with ongoing cognitive activity: A Stroop paradigm - Bonanno, G

 

 

 

The Self and autobiographical memory in Complicated Grief - Bryant, R

 

 

 

The influence of treatment on Autobiographical Memory in Complicated Grief - MacCallum, F

 

 

 

 

 

Symposium B

Transgenerational grief - The ‘ghost’ of the sibling never known

 

Symposium Chair - Kempson, D

 

 

Report on a phenomenological study of sibling grief - Conley, V

 

 

 

Interactive dialogue on the educational and practice implications of findings on sibling and family infant loss - Murdock, V

 

 

 

Family coping: The family system and transgenerational grief - Schatz, M

Individual Papers A

Cognitive Issues

 

Session Chair - Harms, L

 

Family and social networks after bereavement: Experiences of support, change, and isolation – Breen, L

Individual Papers B

Suicide

 

Session Chair - Glassock, G

 

A death in the family: Supporting families bereaved as a result of suicide – Friday, B

 

 

 

 

Individual Papers C

Culture and Class

 

Session Chair - Awan, B

 

Bereavement and Grief Care in Japan – Deeken, A

 

 

How to Session A

Trauma, ritual and creativity

 

Session Chair - Sullivan, J

 

How to use imagery rescripting in resolving complications associated with grief that involves trauma – Lynch, P

 

Practice Forum A

 

 

Session Chair and Host - Griffin, K

 

Depth work in pet loss counseling – Antinori, D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.20am – 11.40am

 

Building carer resilience to navigate the grief experiences in the dementia journey: A quality support group model – Brown, J. & Huskins, L

 

Proactive support for people bereaved by suicide: The ARBOR journey – Gibbs, C

 

Implications for the health worker in dealing with complicated grief: A question of culture and spiritual values – Abouhamad, V

 

How to plan and run a ‘ceremony of remembrance’ for people with a range of bereavement experiences – Giljohann, A

 

11.40am – 12.00pm

 

Does a palliative care approach for people with severe dementia ameliorate complicated grief and improve health outcomes of their family caregivers? - Shuter , P

 

Grief of children following parental suicide – Ratnarajah, D

 

The more is not always the merrier’: When social networks derail response and adaptation to conjugal grief in collectivist, rural South Africa - Somhlaba , N

 

How to weave metaphoric stories that awaken grief group co-creativity in action – Sands, D

 

12.00pm -12.20pm

 

Thinking about death and what it means: The perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities – Read, S

 
Exploring the impact of stigma on the experience of bereavement – Flynn, L
Reflections on the impact of class and race on the grief experience – Allan, J
 

12.30–1.30pm

Lunch

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

1.30pm  – 3.00pm

Introduction

 

A Personal Perspective

 

Keynote Speaker 2

 

Prof. Margaret Stroebe

 

From Vulnerability to Resilience: Is the Pendulum Swing in Bereavement Research Justified?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.00 – 3.30 pm

Afternoon Tea

3.30pm  - 5.10pm

 

 

3.30pm – 3.50pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Symposium C

 

 

From the other side - How it feels to be young and dying

 

 

 

Symposium Chair - Brown, M

 

 

 

 

Interview with Amber - DVD - Ashby, M

 

 

 

 

A witness of a witness: Amber’s journal - Brown, M

 

 

 

 

 

Panel Discussion - Brown, M & Ashby, M

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Symposium D

 

 

The Beaumont model of bereavement care for acute hospitals

 

Symposium Chair - Walsh, T

 

The socio-historical context for the development of the Beaumont service – O’Connor, E

 

 

The Beaumont model of bereavement care: Philosophy, principles and practice - Winston, A. & O’Connor, E

 

 

Bereavement care in an acute hospital: An evaluation of the Beaumont service - Walsh, T

Symposium E

 

Symposium Chair and Host - Neimeyer, R

 

 

The Gifts of Grief - Sobonya, R

 

Individual Papers D

Suicide

 

Session Chair - Flynn, L

 

 

Quantifying the experience of grief after suicide – Bycroft, P

 

 

 

 

Individual Papers E

Policy and Service Delivery

 

Session Chair - Hearn, G

 

Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland: Balancing client need, volunteer training and effective intervention — The development of an evidence based approach to bereavement care in one national agency – Birrell, J

Individual Papers F

 

Session Chair - Chandler, R

 

 

 

Lament of a mother –Pienaar, D

 

 

 

How to Session B

Practice Issues

 

Session Chair - Harms, L

 

 

 

The current practice of grief counsellors in Western Australia – Breen, L