Conference
European Grief Conference 2024, Dublin
In November 2024, the second European Grief Conference was held in Dublin. The conference was hosted by the Irish Hospice Foundation in collaboration with the Danish National Center for Grief (Det Nationale Sorgcenter), Bereavement Network Europe (BNE), and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Once again, researchers and practitioners, among others, gathered to share knowledge on grief and promote collaboration regarding the development and implementation of effective and culturally sensitive bereavement care across Europe.
Professor and Head of Unit for Bereavement Research, Maja O'Connor, gave a presentation on the identification and diagnosis of Prolonged Grief Disorder based on the ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR.
From the Unit for Bereavement Research, Lene Larsen also participated with a presentation on "Changes in experiences of natural grief over time," Christina Buur Christensen with a presentation on "Older bereaved individuals' experiences of cognitive behavioral therapy for complicated grief reactions," and Malene Hoffmann Buskbjerg, who gave a presentation on "Grief-focused cognitive behavioral therapies: What do we know? And where are we headed?". Furthermore, Lars Petter Sødal Bergsmark presented a poster regarding his research: “Prolonged Grief Disorder: Controversies and problematic perceptions.”
First European Grief Conference
In September 2022, the first European conference on grief was held in Copenhagen. The conference was organized by the National Center for Grief in collaboration with the Bereavement Network Europe (BNE), Aarhus University, and the Irish Hospice Foundation. This was the first in a series of grief conferences. The next one, the Second European Grief Conference, will be held in Ireland in 2024.
The purpose was to share knowledge about grief and promote grief care in Europe by inspiring collaboration.
Professor and head of the Unit for Bereavement Research, Maja O'Connor, was part of the conference planning committee, where she also gave a lecture on the Grief Scale Study.
From the Unit for Bereavement Research, Lene Larsen also participated with a presentation on "My Experience of Grief: A Study of Grief Processes," and Katrine B. Komischke-Konnerup gave a presentation on "Life with Grief." Find all the unit's projects here.
A former participant from the TAB Study, Per Lykke Jacobsen, participated by reciting his own poems. The poems are a poetic narrative about loss, grief, joy, love, and the feeling of powerlessness in the face of death. You can read the poems here. The conference also featured the artwork "SORG" created by artist Britt Boesen based on testimonies from bereaved individuals. See them here.
You can also learn more about the conference on the official website: https://www.egc2022.dk/
