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Media
Release
- 21 April
1998
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- New Australian
journal on grief and bereavement
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- Grief
Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement will
be launched by Ms. Geraldine Doogue (journalist and ABC presenter)
on Tuesday, 28 April 1998 at the Knox Lecture Theatre, Theological
College (Corpus Christi), Bayview Avenue, Clayton, at 3.00 p.m.
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- Speaking at
the launch will be Professor Beverley Raphael, Director Centre
for Mental Health - NSW Health Department, academic, author and
clinician. "Grief is not a disease. Major contributions have
been made by Australian researchers in taking forward the frontiers
of understanding in the field of grief and bereavement," says
Professor Raphael.
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- The launch
will acknowledge that this day also marks the second anniversary
of the murder of 35 people at Port Arthur.
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- Articles in
the journal will represent excellent Australian research initiatives
contributing to the scientific study of bereavement, its phenomena
and outcomes. The first issue deals with grief within families,
the grief of older men and the experience of grief. Forthcoming
issues will cover such themes as aboriginal grief and loss, loss
and the migrant experience, disability and mental health, traumatic
loss, children and grief and gender issues.
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- The journal
is published by the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement and encompasses
both academic and applied aspects of grief and bereavement.
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- While distinctively
Australian in flavour, the journal will also include content from
New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and South-East Asia.
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- For more information,
contact Pam Buscemi at the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement on -
- tel: (03) 9545
6377, fax: (03) 9545 6399, E-mail: griefmatters@grief.org.au.
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- Interviews
and photo opportunity
- Grief
Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement,
3.00 - 4.30 pm Tuesday 28 April 1997, Theological College (Corpus
Christi), Bayview Avenue, Clayton (Melway Ref.
70 D9)
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