“No Boundaries: Complicated Deaths, Complicated Grief,” the second in a three-part conversation on grief and loss for healthcare professionals, will take place at Mount Saint Mary College’s Aquinas Hall Theatre on Tuesday, December 5, starting at 5 p.m.
Mount Saint Mary College is located at 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh, N.Y. The event is free but registration is required. To register, visit https://bit.ly/Grief2023 or call 845-220-3152.
The event will begin with a welcoming and networking reception. At 6 p.m., Dr. Kenneth Doka, a licensed mental health counselor and preeminent expert in grief, will share his thoughts on modern grief theories.
It will be presented by the Kaplan Family Foundation in collaboration with Cornerstone Family Healthcare; Mount Saint Mary College’s Center on Aging and DIS-Ability Policy (CADP); Access: Supports for Living; and Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall.
The presentation will address risk factors for complicated grief such as traumatic and sudden losses – focusing on deaths due to suicide, addiction, and homicide; the current ways that complications of grief are recognized in the DSM-5-TR; and current perspectives on treatment.
Dr. Doka is a professor emeritus at the graduate school of The College of New Rochelle and Senior Vice-President for Grief Programs for the Hospice Foundation of America. He is one of the authors of Dying and Death: Life and Living. His other books include When We Die: Extraordinary Experiences at Life’s End, Living with Grief since COVID-19, Living with Grief: Before and After Death, and many more books, chapters, and scholarly articles.