Seminars

This talk will highlight recent and ongoing projects at the Center for Prolonged Grief that span topics of diagnostic criteria, treatment adaptation and training. Among them, the presenter will describe validation of a new diagnostic interview to assess the DSM-5-TR criteria for Prolonged Grief, as well as efforts to adapt an efficacious therapy for adults with prolonged grief into a family-based treatment.

Is it possible that America’s “Rural Cemetery Movement” was way ahead of its time? Exploring the challenges and opportunities of a 186-year-old cemetery in New York City.

This presentation introduces aesthetics as a missing aspect in end-of-life care. Finding beauty (vs. doing right) is an attribute of human life that offers value and meaning -- a quality that even fulfills life. Kei Okada examines the relational and transformative nature of our sense of time and symbolic associations as important context and "media" in end-of-life communication; and explores holistically how we may expand our body-mind-spirit senses with curiosity to notice, attend, and encourage new connections in meaning-making and experiential knowledge, in order to reconcile reason with intuition, health with illness, gain with loss, joy with grief, ending with beginning, life with death, becoming whole.