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Grief seminar goes beyond Kubler-Ross model

Pastoral Care Services will sponsor an educational seminar on grief March 7.

The learning objectives include: describe long-held assumptions about the grief experience that are challenged by developments in grief research and theory, engage the grief experience through a narrative perspective that considers disruptions as one of the primary challenges of grief, and present the contemporary constructivist perspective, which understands the reconstruction of meaning following narrative disruption as the central task of grieving.

The guest speaker will be Melissa Kelley, Ph.D., associate professor of pastoral care and counseling and the faculty director of the Professional Ministry Practicum at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

The seminar, titled "Grief: Beyond Kubler-Ross," will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Storm Eye Institute Auditorium.

Friday, March 1, 2013

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