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IUPsyS Capacity Building Workshop: Bereavement Research and Practice
Jena, Germany 2009
Following the 2008 Russian–Georgian armed conflict IUPsyS like many other organizations, received an urgent request from Georgia to provide support for Georgian psychologists’ work with internally displaced persons. Following exchanges with Professor Irakli Imedadze, Director of Uznadze Institute of Psychology and President of the Georgian Psychological Society, IUPsyS President Rainer Silbereisen under the auspices of the IUPsyS capacity-building program developed a workshop series Conflict Prevention in the South Caucasus Region. The first of the workshops in the series, Bereavement, Research and Practice, was held in November, 2009 at the University of Jena. Support for the workshop series is provided by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the IUPsyS and the University of Jena. The second workshop will focus on research and training models for bereavement interventions, and the third on curriculum development, implementation, and measurement.
The workshop, Bereavement, Research and Practice, held November 2-6, 2009 in Jena, Germany, had 21 participants, from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia and 10 faculty from Germany, Switzerland and China. Over the four working days, participants and faculty listened to lectures, discussed poster presentations, engaged in group work and discussion, and presented individual projects. Participants learned about the concept of bereavement, including its definitions, effects, and context, and participated in hands-on presentation and critique of data and research projects from the region. In addition to the working program there was a series of evening talks and a lively social program.
A full report of the workshop will be published in an issue of the 2010 IUPsyS Newsletter.
The next workshop in the series is planned for October, 2010.
Faculty and their Presentations:
Professor Martin Hautzinger, Tübingen, Germany: Theories of bereavement
Professor Claudia Dalbert, Halle, Germany: Measurement and diagnostic issues
Professor Buxin Han, Beijing, China: Bereavement in the Chinese culture –example of the Wenchuan Earthquake
Professor Frank Neuner, Bielefeld, Germany: Bereavement and trauma in the context of poverty and war
Professor Thomas Elbert, Konstanz, Germany: Prolonged Grief and Potential Interventions
Professor Hansjörg Znoj, Bern, Switzerland: Intervention and Complicated Bereavement
Professor Rainer K. Silbereisen, Jena, Germany: Issues of professionalization in psychology
Professor Wolfgang Miltner, Jena, Germany: Education and training in clinical psychology
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