Episode
About this Episode:
This week, Dr. Allison Kramer talks with Professor Mari Dias about her lifetime of experience working with end-of-life patients and bereaved clients in her family’s mortuary, hospice settings, her private practice, and on the radio.
Presenter
About Mari:
Dr. Mari Dias is certified in grief counseling and complicated grief and holds a fellow in Thanatology. She is a nationally certified counselor and a full professor of counseling in the MS program at JWU in Providence, RI. Moreover, Mari is Director of GracePointe Grief Center and a hospice volunteer. She works with both end-of-life and bereaved individuals in both these capacities. As host of a talk radio show entitled Journeys she covers both finite and non- finite loss and is referred to as “The Grief Whisperer”.
You can email Mari at gracepointegrief@gmail.com.
Links and References
Links and References:
Mari’s website: www.gracepointegrief.com
Mari’s Facebook page: GracePointe Grief RI
Association for Death Education and Counseling
Related Books:
Meagher, David K. and Balk, David E. Handbook of Thanatology.
Yalom, Irvin. Staring into The Sun.
Chochinov, Harvey. Dignity in Death.
Neimeyer, Robert. Meaning Making.
Citation
The APA Citation for this Episode:
Shook, M. (Producer). (2018, June 27). The Grief Whisperer: Exploring Death and Dying with Thanatologist Dr. Mari Dias [Audio Podcast]. The Thoughtful Counselor. Retrieved from https://wp.me/p7R6fn-qu.
