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Media
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- 3 July 1998
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- Professor
Kenneth Doka - International Author, Counsellor and Educator
- in Melbourne 15 and 16 July 1998
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- Disenfranchised
Grief
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- Dr Doka is
a Professor of Gerontology at the College of New Rochelle, USA.
The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement has invited Dr Doka to Australia
to present a series of seminars on 'Disenfranchised Grief' for
those who are involved with grieving people including nurses, counsellors,
doctors, social workers, psychologists, teachers, clergy, volunteers,
youth workers and other health workers. These seminars will be
taking place at the Main Lecture Theatre, Monash Medical Centre,
Clayton Road, Clayton, on Wednesday, 15 July.
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- Dr Doka is
best known for his ground breaking work in Disenfranchised Grief.
Dr Doka states: "There are circumstances in which a person
experiences a sense of loss but does not have a socially recognised
right, role, or capacity to grieve. In these cases, the grief is
disenfranchised." Disenfranchised grief may be experienced
as a result of suicide bereavement, abortion, the death of a lover,
a developmental disability, AIDS, etc.
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- "The concept
of disenfranchised grief recognises that societies have sets of
norms - in effect, 'grieving rules' - that attempt to specify who,
when, where, how, how long, and for whom people should grieve",
says Dr Doka.
The seminars will
cover:
- the phenomena
of disenfranchised grief;
- effective interventions
for assisting disenfranchised grievers;
- factors that
are increasing the problem of disenfranchised grief;
- the developmental,
social and psychological factors that influence the grief of children
and adolescents;
- the different
patterns in children and adolescent grief;
- rationales
and strategies for empowering parents, schools and peer groups
to support and assist child and adolescent grievers
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- Dr. Doka's
books include Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing Hidden Sorrow; Living
with a Life Threatening Illness; Living with Grief: After
Sudden Loss; Death and Spirituality; and Children
Mourning and Mourning Children. Dr Doka has served as a consultant
to medical, nursing and hospice organisations and to businesses,
educational and social service agencies.
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- In 1993 Dr
Doka was elected president of the Association for Death Education
and Counselling and in 1995 was elected to the board of the International
Working Group on dying, Death and Bereavement and elected Chair
in 1997.
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- For more information,
contact Pam Buscemi at the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement on tel:
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6377, AH (03 9544 2382, fax: (03) 9545 6399,
- E-mail: griefmatters@grief.org.au
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- Interviews
can be arranged for the following days:
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- Melbourne:
Tuesday, 14 July
- Wednesday,
15 July - early a.m / after 5:00 p.m
- Thursday, 16
July - early a.m / after 5:00 p.m
- Sydney: Friday,
17 July to Friday, 24 July
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- Interviews
can be arranged by contacting Pam Buscemi at the above telephone
numbers.
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