J. William Worden, Ph.D., ABPP, will be awarded the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in the Field of Thanatology by the Southern California Chapter of ADEC.

Please join us for this fantastic evening!

Saturday, October 18, 2008

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Cocktail Reception

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Dinner

Location:
Salt Creek Grille in Dana Point, CA

$60.00 per person

Seating is Limited!  Reserve early for this very special evening!

Printable Reservation Form

Dr. Worden, a leading expert in the field of children and bereavement, has authored many books, including Grief Counseling & Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioners; Personal Death Awareness; Children & Grief: When a Parent Dies; and is co-author of Helping Cancer Patients Cope. Dr. Worden is the co-director of the renowned Harvard Childhood Bereavement Study.

In August, the highly anticipated fourth edition of Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy is being released!  Click here to learn more about purchasing this wonderful resource!

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The Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern California Chapter of ADEC was presented to Dr. Edwin Shneidman,  Founding Father of Suicidology,
at our 2007 Conference.

In 1998, the Association for Death Education and Counseling honored Dr. Edwin Shneidman with the Research Recognition Award. On September 15, 2007, the Southern California Chapter of the Association for Death Education and Counseling will present our Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Edwin Shneidman for his outstanding contributions to thanatology and suicidology.

Dr. Shneidman has stood at the forefront of suicide studies in this country for more than 50 years. He is a pioneering authority on suicide with the David Geffen School of Medicine, founder of the American Association of Suicidology and author of numerous books on suicide, including Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind and Deaths of Man, which was nominated for a National Book Award. His writings have taught countless psychologists and other health professionals about the complexity of suicide, death and bereavement.

In a recent essay, Dr. Shneidman wrote: “I am a thanatologist [one who studies death].... I realize that there is a certain whiff of sulfur in this profession, but my assertion is that anyone who spends a good deal of time with Thanatos, the Greek god of death, can live a life made much richer by that intimate association with the darker side of life.”

Dr. Edwin S. Shneidman is Professor of Thanatology Emeritus in the University of California at Los Angeles.

For more information about Dr. Shneidman, please visit the following links:

Criteria for a Good Death by Dr. Edwin Shneidman

American Association of Suicidology