• Bereavement, Trauma and loss

The traumas of bereavement: Perspectives from Israel and the United States. All day workshop, August 29, 2007. Auckland, New Zealand.

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• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S. On life and on loss: A 4 day workshop for nurses who request organ and tissue donations from families of the deceased. Four day workshop for Israel’s National Transplant Center, Tel Aviv area, September – December 2003.

• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S.: Traumatic-Loss and bereavement workshop for mental health professionals, Mt. Ida College, Newton, MA. February, 2002. (with R. Malkinson).

• Psychotherapyand Loss

Rubin, S.: A current look at loss and bereavement – Theory and therapy. Workshop/ course for the Safad Psychotherapy Program, Safad, Israel, February 2001.

• Psychotherapy and Supervision

Rubin, S.: Supervision work in bereavement: Improving helping relationships. One day workshop – The Rowans Hospice, Portsmouth, England. October, 2000.

• Bereavement

Rubin, S.: Issues in balancing fidelity to the living and the dead. Conference entitled: “Dying, death and grief as an impulse of an ethical and spiritual religious development in post-modern society”. Koln, Germany, March, 1999.

• Psychotherapy and Loss

Rubin, S.: The Supervision of Intervention in Bereavement: Didactic and Experiential Workshop. Eight hour invited workshop conducted over 3 days as part of the Trauerbegleitung: Perspektiven fur Fortbildung und Forschung. Sponsored by the Institute for Social Medicine and Psychology, Evangelical Academy Loccum, Hannover, Germany; September 23-27, 1996.

• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S.: The Trauma of Loss: Recalibrating Our Clinical and Theoretical Perspective. Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, December, 1995.

• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S., with Malkinson, R., & Witztum, E.: Models of Intervention with Chronic Grief. Israel Psychological Association’s 24th Scientific Congress, Tel Aviv, October 13, 1993. Also – Models of Intervention with Bereavement Israel Psychological Association’s 25th Scientific Congress, Beer Sheba, October 23, 1995.

• Ethics and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S. Workshop on Professional Ethics for Psychotherapists. Half-day workshop at the National Institute for Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured-Recanati Center. Haifa, July, 1994.

• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S., with Malkinson, R., & Witztum, E.: Models of Intervention with Chronic Grief. Third National Conference on Bereavement and Israeli Society; Tel Aviv, and International Conference on Grief and Bereavement, Stockholm, Sweden; June, 1994.

• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Cinderella– Alternate Approaches in Psychotherapy: The Psychodynamic Perspective. Plenary session at the Seventh Conference for the Israeli Association of Marital and Family Therapists, Haifa, October, 1990.

• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S.: Failure to Mourn a Child’s Death: Issues in Psychotherapy with a Moslem Family. Children in War, International Conference of the Freud Center of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 25, 1990.

• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S.: Expectations, Abilities, Transference and Counter-transference in Our Work with Bereavement. Tel Aviv University’s Conference on Treatment of the Terminally Ill and the Bereaved, Tel Aviv, July, 1989.

• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S.: Loss and the Family: A Workshop for Clinicians. Israel Psychological Association’s 22nd Scientific Congress, Haifa, February, 1989.

• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S.: Does Bereavement Research Have Relevance for Bereavement Counselors. Half-day program, Department of Rehabilitation, Israel Ministry of Defense; Tel Aviv, February, 1988.

• Child Evaluation and Therapy

Rubin, S. and Kennedy, D.: Workshop leaders; The Disorders of Separation Individuation in Preschool Children. One day workshop, American Psychological Association Eighty-eighth Annual Convention; Montreal, Quebec; September, 1980.

• Bereavement

Rubin, S.: Group leader and moderator; Parental Reactions to S.I.D.S. – workshop and demonstration interviewing. National Conference on Counseling and the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; Oak Brook, Illinois; September 29- October 1, 1976.

• Child Evaluation and Therapy

Rubin, S.: Workshop leader; Atypical Development in the Two to Four Year Old Child–What to Look For and What to Do If You Find It. Chicago Association for the Education of Young Children; Annual Conference; February, 1976.

• Bereavement

Keynote address–and Co-Organizer of National Seminar on Identity and Memory among Bereaved Siblings. Title of presentation: Bereaved Siblings: Identity, Memory, Myth and Fact. Co-organizers: Yad Lebanim Bereaved Parent Organization, Tzahal (IDF), and Ministry of Defense Bereaved Family Unit. Venue: University of Haifa, Haifa, October, 2008.

• Ethics

Ethics in the Academy and things to learn and to implement. Plenary talk for Research Fair of the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa. June, 2010.

• Bereavement

Keynote address –Bereaved Siblings Conference, לנצח אחי, Wingate, Israel. January 31, 2008.

• Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Is there Life After Death– and if so, for whom? Invited address– Academic conference on loss and bereavement in memory of Rotem Naori and Adi Naeem. Faculty of Behavioral Science, Netanyah Academic College, March, 2008.

• Bereavement

Public lecture on Loss, Memory, and Coping with the Tasks of Life. Presentation for “Path to Life” Non-profit organization offering information and support to families whose lives have been touched by suicide. Herzeliyah, December, 2008.

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• Ethics and Professional Practice

Professional Ethics for Therapists and Patients: Truth, Fashion, and the In-between. Presentation at the 1 Day conference on “Ethics in Our Story”. Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, January, 2008.

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• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Cognitive Grief Therapy: Constructing a Rational Meaning to Life Following Loss. Honoring Dr. Ruth Malkinson– An Intimate talk and evening at the Bookworm (Tolaat Sfarim), Tel Aviv. February, 2008.

• Ethics and Professional Practice

Boundary violations and psychotherapeutic choices: The case of Seymour Trotter. Petersgate counselling center, Christchurch, New Zealand. August, 2007.

• Bereavement, Trauma and loss

The loss of loss, the working through of loss, and the psychological experience of loss. (Ibood evel, eebood evel, vehavnayot hamashmaoot hanafshit beikvot ovdan.) Public Lecture: Spirit, Mourning, and Bereavement (Nefesh, Evel, Veschol). Mishkenot Shaananim, Jerusalem, April, 2006.

• Bereavement

Memory and Memorialization. Presentation as part of a symposium on Bereavement and Society. Shderot Conference on Issues in Contemporary Israeli Society, Shederot, November, 2005.

• Professional Ethics

The Boundaries of Sexuality and Confidentiality: Psychologists, healthcare professionals, clergy, and rabbis. Presentation to Religous Mental Health Forum, Safad, February, 2005.

• Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Lecture: Shimshon Rubin – Developments in bereavement and in the study of bereavement. Discussants: Prof. E. Witztum and Prof. O. Gilbar. Symposium in honor of Prof. E. Witztum on the occasion of the publication of his book: Spirit, loss and bereavement (Hebrew — Nefesh, evel, veschol). University of Haifa, May, 2005.

• Personality and Psychotherapy

Current controversies in clinical psychology: A guide for the perplexed judge. Lecture at Forum for Continuing Education for Israeli judges on Psychology and the Law, January, 2004.

• Bereavement, Trauma and loss

What fine art has to show us about the ongoing accompaniement and relationship between the deceased and the living. Presentation to bereaved families due to terrorist activities, Israel National Health Insurance (Bituach Leumi). Haifa, November, 2004.

• Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Thirty years following the Yom Kippur war. Examining the “shloshim” from the religous and mourning traditions. Memorial Service, Rememberance Day, Ahuza, Haifa, May, 2004.

• Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

The hierarchy of bereavement: Civilian and military bereavement and what lies between. Chairperson and discussant of session devoted to society, art, and the media. Haifa, December, 2004.

Loss and Remembrance Day: An Interview. Israel Television, May, 2003.

New Developments in bereavement. Presentation at the 1 day. Contemporary loss in Israel. Conference, University of Haifa, June, 2002.

Patient request for surgery without medical indication. Presentation at the conference on patient’s poor care of his or her body. International Center for Medicine Law and Ethics, University of Haifa, May, 2002. (with Mariana Gaitini).

• Ethics and the Healthcare Professions

The Dean’s Luncheon Seminar Series, Physician Assisted Suicide – R. Cohen-Almagor and S. Rubin (discussant.) University of Haifa, April 2002.

Private Mourning and National Mourning. Kol Israel Radio Program, Memorial Day-Yom Hazikaron, April, 2002. (S. Rubin, E. Witztum, R. Malkinson and others).

Loss, bereavement and trauma through the lens of time: From the perspectives of psychology, society and religion. Lecture delivered at “An evening devoted to the book: “Traumatic and Nontraumatic Loss and Bereavement”. Tel Aviv University, Bereavement Fund, Shapell School of Social Work, April, 2002. (S. Rubin, E. Witztum, R. Malkinson, and D. Statman, discussant).

On the mutual interaction of loss and change: Experience, understanding and intervention. Plenary address on the program: The effects of change and loss on the family and individual in the community. Community council of Jordan Valley Professional Conference, March 2001.

Working with the Two-track Model of Bereavement: Who Needs another Model Anyhow? St. Christopher’s Hospice, Research and Practice Seminar. Chairperson: C.M. Parkes. London, England. October, 2000.

Who needs an ethical therapist? Consumers and therapists evaluate psychotherapists. National Conference on new developments in science and law. International Center for Ethics, Healthcare and Law, University of Haifa, May, 2000.Projections of domestic violence and erotic terror on the film screen. Panelist and discussant, University of Haifa’s Postgraduate Psychotherapy Program, December, 1999.

The truths and lies of therapists and patients. Presentation at the University of Haifa International Center for Ethics, Healthcare and Law One Day Conference on The White Lie, Haifa, May, 1999.

Ethics and the psychiatric hospital: Lessons from research. Mazra hospital professional staff presentation, November, 1998.

• Ethics and Psychotherapy

What is unethical about patient-provider sex? Appearance on Nissim Mishal’s “Mishal Cham” (hot questions) television program, Channel 2, December, 1998. (Additional appearances on Matav – summer, 1999)

Ethics in the Supervisory Relationship. Keynote Presentation to the University of Haifa Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies Program for Advanced Training in Psychotherapy, May, 1997.

Ethics–Reality, Fashion, Ideal: Lessons from Healthcare and Psychology. Presentation to the University of Haifa School of Education and Ministry of Education’s School Counseling Program Forum on Ethics of the Helping Professions, May, 1997.

• Bereavement, Trauma and loss

The Holocaust and the Jewish People: Remembering, Forgetting and Working through. Keynote Speaker at the 1997 University of Haifa Memorial Service for the Holocaust, May, 1997.

The Ethics of Supervision. Presentation to the Technion University Counseling Center, February, 1997.

Presentation for Ariel Rabbinical Seminar for Communal Rabbinic Authorities on “The Rabbi and his Communal Charge.” Title of talk: “Seeing a problem is insufficient to effect change: Lessons from psychological research, (Hebrew: “Deberiyah balmah lo kanei lah :Baba Metiziyah:”: Al mah shelamadnual hamishpacha.”); Zichron Yaakov, July, 1996.

Chairperson (and organizer)– Program on Ethics in Academia and Psychology. One Day Special Meeting of the Haifa University Psychology Department faculty, graduate students, and invited guests; Haifa, May, 1996.

• Ethics

Featured speaker at the University of Haifa Forum on Academic Freedom: Limits, Rights & Responsibilities. Title of talk – “A View on Ethics and Fidelity in Academia: Lessons from Ethics of the Professions”; November, 1995.

Discussant, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and the Family Institute 1 Day Workshop on Complicated Mourning (with T. Rando and A. Lazare); Boston, Massachusetts; November, 1994.

Plenary Panel Discussion: Aspects of Bereavement in the Family. Presentation to the Third National Conference on Bereavement and Israeli Society; Tel Aviv, June, 1994.

Plenary Lecture. The Many Faces of Depression: Loss and Melancholia. First morning session for Israeli Medical Association’s One Day Meeting for the Association of Psychiatrists in Northern Region of Israel. Dan Panorama Hotel, Haifa, March, 1993.

• Psychotherapy and Supervision

Discussant, National Seminar on Supervision, Is there a need for a change of emphasis in psychodynamic supervision. Zichron Yaakov, Israel. February, 1993.

The Two-track Model of Bereavement and Cultural Aspects of Conceptualizing and Intervening in Loss. Lecture to the Indochina Psychiatry Program, Harvard Trauma Group, Brighton Marine, Boston, Massachusetts, September, 1993.

Ethics, Research and Practice: On the Occasion of the Launching of a Reader in Ethics and the Law. Session One at the Annual One Day Meeting for the Senior Clinical Psychologists of Israel. National Psychology Board (Vaadah Miktzoet) Jaffa, December, 1993.

Professional Ethics and the Psychotherapist: Early Empirical Findings. Keynote address presented at the Annual Member Meeting for the Israel Association for Family and Marital Therapy. Tel Aviv, December, 1993.

Participant (and organizer)– Symposium on Ethics and Clinical Psychology. One Day Special Meeting of the Haifa University Clinical Psychology Program faculty, students, and practicum supervisory personnel. Haifa, May, 1993.

Discussant, Ethical and Professional Issues in Working with Clients. Half-day Conference on Therapists and the Potentially Dangerous Patient. Ministry of Health Northern Region, Tirat Hacarmel Hospital, Haifa. October, 1992.

Discussant, Symposium on Anxiety and Anger. Israel Psychological Association, Jerusalem, October, 1991.

Psychological Aspects of Widowhood. Israeli Radio “Life Issues” (Chaim) program, , 1991.

Chairperson, Session on Widowhood. Second National Conference on Coping with Loss and Israeli Society, Haifa; February, 1991.

Discussant–Treatment Issues in Work with Adopted Children and Their Families: Fertility and Barrenness. Half-day conference of The Association for Homes for the Children in Israel, Haifa, April, 1989.

Bereavement Issues in Israel. An interview for Israel Radio “Concepts” (Musahgim) program, August, 1989.

Death of the Future?: The Impact of War Bereavement Upon Israeli Parents. Lecture to the Illinois Chapter of the Association for Mental Health Aid to Israel. Chicago, June 1987.

• Psychotherapy and Supervision

The Teaching of Psychotherapy: Confessions of a Supervisor of Supervisors. Lecture to the Older Adult Program – Northwestern University Medical School. Chicago, May, 1987.

Discussant, Panel Discussion on Evaluation and Treatment of a Child. Conference on The Mental Health Needs of Children and Adolescents. Kupat Cholim Medical Fund, Carmel Hospital, Haifa. January, 1.

Emotional and Behavioral Reactions of the Family to Learning Disability or Ghosts and Spirits in Family Reactions to LD. One Day Conference on Learning Disability. Haifa City Medical Center/ Faculty of Medicine Technion; Haifa; April, 1985.

Chairperson, Opening Scientific Address on Object Relations, Transference and Countertransference. Israel Psychological Association Spring Program, Clinical Division Conference; Arad; May, 1983.

• Professional Issues

Four Questions Facing Clinical Psychology in Israel. Opening speech to the Israel Psychological Association conference: The Psychologist’s Role in the Mental Health System in Israel; Tel Aviv; October, 1982.

• Professional Issues

Chairperson, Issues in Clinical Psychology. Israel Psychological Association’s 18th Scientific Convention; Haifa; February, 1982.

The Integration of Conjoint and Individual Treatment Modalities in a Couple’s Treatment. Clinical Conference, Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Institute, Michael Reese Medical Center; Chicago, Illinois; April, 1976.

• • Ethics and Psychotherapy Supervision

Hilla Calderon, M.A. (2015). Ethical and professional aspects of working with personal material in psychotherapy supervision.

• • Bereavement, Trauma and Loss

Lital Kaplan, M.A. (2015). Loss under traumatic circumstances and the Two-Track Model of Bereavement: A comparison between parents who lost their child in a car accident and parents who lost their child to suicide.

• • Bereavement, Trauma and Loss

Naama Pazi-Gal, M.A. (2014). The impact of loss and attachment style on functioning,relationship with the deceased, and meaning reconstruction: A comparison between bereaved and non-bereaved adults.

• • Bereavement, Trauma and Loss

Ori Sivan, M.A. (2014). Maternal depression as an experience of loss according to the Two-Track Model of Loss and Bereavement: The influence of childhood maternal depression as compared to mother loss on their adult daughters.

• • Culture, Bereavement, Trauma and Loss

Yoa’d Ghanadry, M.A. (2012). Loss among Arab Muslims and Christians: The influence of religion, culture and attachment in the Two-Track Model of Bereavement. (Winner Dafna Eviatar prize for excellence in bereavement research).

• • Culture and Psychotherapy in Haredi Israel

Avraham Goldshmid, M.A. (2012). Psychotherapy and Haredi Society: An attitude study regarding the determinants of willingness to refer Haredim with difficulties in loss or depression to psychotherapists, haredi “counselors”, rabbis, and medical personnel.

• • Bereavement, Trauma and Loss

Ofri Amit, M.A. (2012). Sibling relationship in life and death in the kibbutz and in the city: Intimacy, attachment and perception of loss.

• • Bereavement, Trauma and Loss

Maya Halevi, M.A. (2012). Meaning, attachment style and the Two-Track Model of Bereavement: A research study on attitudes towards coping with loss.

• • Bereavement, Trauma and Loss

Shachar Mor Yosef, Ph.D. (2011). Doctoral proposal 2005. The emotional adjustment of combat soldiers to wounds and loss : The contribution of attachment and interpersonal coping styles

• • Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Michal Fisher. (2010). Parent’s bereaved of children: The impact of loss and attachment upon functioning and relationships to deceased and living children.

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• • Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Itay Adres, Ph.D. (2011). Attachment, Bereavement, and Parental Response to Child Loss. Proposal submitted, 2007. Dissertation approved with distinction.

• • Loss and Personality

Mor Aveneri (2010). Parental divorce in childhood and the Two-Track Model of Loss and Bereavement: Functioning and relationship to parent as a function of attachment style among young women.

• • Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Mariana Gaitini , Ph.D. (2009). The “Dead Mother”: On the impact of different types of death and deadness upon the life course of adult women. Doctorate proposal 2003, (co-supervised with Barry Berger). Recipient Grant awards.

• • Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Ronit Shalev , Ph.D. (2009). Bereaved parents: Change of self, future orientation, functioning, and adaptation to loss. (C0-supervised with Rachel Seginer, Dept. of Education.) Doctoral proposal approved 2004.

• • Bereavement, Trauma and loss

T. Ashkenazi (2010). The impact of organ donation on bereavement outcome. (University of Tel Aviv co-supervised with M. Ehrnfeld). Doctoral proposal approved, 2005.

• • Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Yoav Laron (2009). Loss and trauma: The impact of comrade-loss during a combat operation on the psychological adaptation of soldiers. (Co-supervised with Danny Koren).

• • Personality

Liat Katz (2009). Mothering chronically ill adolescents: The relationship between parenting representations, attachment style, and the resolution of the child’s illness. (Co-supervised with Hadas Wiseman).

• • Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Moran Goffer-Shnarch (2006) A comparison of bereaved and non -bereaved adults from the perspective of the Two -Track Model of Bereavement: On functioning and relationship to the parent.

• Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Ofri Bar Nadav, Ph.D. (2007).Partner loss and the Two-Track Model of Bereavement: The long term consequences of bereavement for young women. Doctorate proposal 2003, cosupervised with Benny Beit-Hallahmi : (Recipient of grant awards and research awards).

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• Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Maayan Lampert-Tzameret, Ph.D. (2008). “Visible” and “Non-Visible Loss”: The Experiences of Loss in the Lives of Women who have Lost their Fathers in Childhood. Proposal approved in 2004, co-supervised with Barry Berger. Winner of research awards.

• Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Frida Nassar (2006).The evaluation of childrens’ responses to the death of a parent: The impact of the Two-Track Model of Bereavement, the relationship to the surviving parent, culture, and profession, MA.

• Doctoral Proposal – Loss

Tamar Gildin, Ph.D.. Proposal approved, 2007.

• Loss

Shachar Mor Yosef (2003). War and Bereavement: The impact of the loss o f comrades in arms upon young men.

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• Loss

Maayan Tzameret Lampert – Unseen Loss, 2003. (Special award – Dean’s outstanding MA thesis for 2003)

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• Loss

Ofri Bar Nadav – Students attitudes towards death, bereavement, and suicide, 2002.

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• Ethics

Marianna Gaitini – The principle of respect for autonomy: Psychological conditions for its actualization and societal outlines for it (with regards to surgery and end of life issues), 2002.

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• Loss

Mor Shechory – The subjective experience and the objective assessment of bereaved parents: A longitudinal narrative analysis of bereaved parents, 2003.

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• Psychotherapy and ethics

Ruth Bodor – Therapist self-disclosure: Attitudes and behaviors of psychodynamically oriented clinical psychologists, 2002.

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• Loss

Najla Asmar Kawar – Perceptions of loss among Jews and Arabs: Culture, gender and the Two-Track Model of Bereavement — Tel Aviv University Child Clinical Program, 2001 (Student/Thesis Award – Tami Stieinmetz fund).

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• Loss

Efrat Wiener Kaufman (2001). Attitudes of physicians, clinical psychologists and the public towards grief reactions and intervention methods in situations of loss and bereavement: The effect of the bereaved’s personality functioning, self-experience and the relationship to the deceased on the evaluation of the bereavement response after loss of a spouse, 2001.

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• Loss

Ran Ron – Lay evaluation of video interviews with bereaved siblings: An analog study with the Two-Track Model of Bereavemen, 2001.

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• Loss

Yonat Aviad – The social construction of children’s responses to the loss of a parent: Evaluating the contributions of the Two-Track Model of Bereavement and Relationship to the surviving parent, 2001.

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• Loss

Hend Yasien – Esmael – Coping with bereavement among Muslim Arabs in Israel: The perception of religious, social and emotional adjustment, 2000. (Student grant/award on proposal – Ebert fund).

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• Ethics

Beneficence and Autonomy as Principles of Medical Ethics in Israeli Medical Students. Ruti Weinberg, 2000.

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• Loss

Ronit Shalev – A comparison of war bereavement and motor vehicle accidents: The impact of loss upon functioning, relationship to the deceased and perception of self, (School of Education), 1999.

• Loss

Orli Ben-Israel Reuveni – The effects of time on the adjustment of war-bereaved parents: Functioning, relationship with the deceased son, and influences on the marital relationship, 1999.

• Loss

Liat Ariel-Henig — Really listening to the bereaved: Analyzing parental interviews to assess how adjustment is related to perception of the deceased, a sibling, and investment in life tasks. Spring, 1999.

• Ethics

Ethical Behavior of Professionals and Rater Empathy as Factors Affecting Referral of Clients for Treatment. Danah Amir – 1998.

• Personality

Mourning the Healthy Child: The Experience of Parents of Schizophrenic and Brain-injured Adults and the Two-track Model of Bereavement and Family Functioning, David Dar, August, 1996.

• Loss and Personality

Internal Object Relationships in Convicted Murderers. M. Offer, 1996.

• Loss

Sandra Frydman-Helfand – Bereaved Siblings, The Two-Track Model of Bereavement and Family Relationships, 1995. (Student/Thesis Award).

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• Personality and Psychotherapy

Representations of Object Relationship & Attachment and the Prediction of Depression in College Students, O. Bar Shaul, 1995.

• Personality and Psychotherapy

Family Constellation and Functioning: Attachment Style, Parental Representations, and Functioning in Attached and Unattached Young Women. Moti Sivan, November, 1994.

• Loss

Neta Shechter – Attitudes Towards Bereavement Outcome and the Identification of Difficulty: A Comparison of Functioning and Relationshp to the Deceased as Predictors of Distress, 1994.

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• Ethics and Professional Training

Omer Dror – Ethics, Permissiveness and Sexual Issues in the Helping Professions: A Comparison of Psychologists and Physicians, 1994. (Student/Thesis Award).

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• Loss

Dvorah Dichterman (Katz). Personality, Object Relations, Attachment, and Outcome to Bereavement, 1989. (Student/Thesis Award).

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• Personality and Psychotherapy

The Relationship of Self Concept and Locus of Control to Adolescent Coping with Placement in Residential Settings. Moshe Leibovitz, 1987.

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• Loss

Gilam Tamir (1987). Factors in the Long-term Adjustment of War-bereaved Parents: Functioning, Relationship and Behavior. (Student/Thesis Award).

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• Loss

Factors in the Emotional and Behavioral Functioning of War-Bereaved Parents: Gender Differences and Coping Mechanisms and the Adaptive Outcome of the Mourning Process. Yael Caspi-Yavin, 1987. (DPH – Harvard University, 1995).

• Personality and Psychotherapy

Object Representation and Object Relationship and the Prediction of Depression. Avi Sadeh, 1987. (D.Sc. – Technion, Tenured faculty of psychology, Tel Aviv University).

• Personality and Psychotherapy

Yael Rosen – Mothers’ Referral of Children to Psychologists: A Study of Childrens’ Behavior, Mothers’ Anxiety Levels, and Attitudes Toward Mental Health, 1987.

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• Personality and Psychotherapy

The Effect of Father Disability on the Family System. Hana Farchi, 1987. *

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• Loss

Daughters of Holocaust Survivors as Mothers. Dina Marcus, 1986. *

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• Personality and Psychotherapy

Repression and Animal Learning: Use of an Animal Model. Dina Lebovits, 1985.*

• Personality and Psychotherapy

The Relationship Between Mothers Perception of Self and Child and Application for Psychotherapy. M. Wiegert, SSW, 1985.

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• Personality and Psychotherapy

Toddlers’ Use of Transitional Objects and Phenomena as Related to Maternal Attitudes and Anxiety. Dorit Maoz, 1984.

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• Personality and Psychotherapy

Biographical Background and Defensive Pattern in the Choice of a Field of Study. Sima Manor, 1984. *

• Personality and Psychotherapy

Personality and Nightmares. Ilana Sivan, 1983.*

• Personality and Psychotherapy

Referral of Pre-school Children to Psychotherapy: A Study of Teacher Attitudes and Child Behavior. Avital Schur, 1983.

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• Personality and Psychotherapy

Mothers Reactions to a Diagnosis of Developmental Defect in Their Children. Tamar Zacharyah, 1983.

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• Personality and Psychotherapy

Mothers Perception of Their Child as a Function of Special Class Placement. Carmela Sadeh, 1983.

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Bereavement and the Zuk Eitan Conflict in Israel and Gaza Rubin, S.S., Malkinson, R. & Witztum, E. Symposium – Traumatic Loss in 2015: Issues and Considerations in Diagnosis, Evaluation and Interventions. One Day conference on Loss, Mourning and Trauma: Current Perspectives, Haifa, January 6, 2015.

Bereavement

Ymai Zikaron Conference 2014. April 9 2014

כנס ימי זיכרון 2014

ימי זיכרון ויצים אחרים: מי זוכרים? מה זוכרים? מתי זוכרים? ולמה זוכרים ? 14

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2014

O. Bar Nadav & S.S. Rubin. The Two-Track Bereavement Questionnaire for Measuring Complicated Grief (TTBQ2-CG31). Tenth International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: East meets West – Expanding Frontiers and Diversity. Hong Kong, June, 2014.

Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S. S. (2013). On helping people during their terrible and awesome days of loss and bereavement. Presentation at Conference devoted to “The Importance of Education for the Science of Loss and Bereavement.” Conference held at the Herziliya Interdisciplinary College, September 2, 2013.

Bereavement, Trauma and loss

April 10, 2013

אולם הכט – בניין אשכול, אוניברסיטת חיפה

ימי זיכרון וימים אחרים :מי זוכרים? מה זוכרים? מתי זוכרים ולמה זוכרים

Remembrance Days and Memorial Days:

Who, When What and Why Do We Remember? Third annual conference on this important theme.

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Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Rubin, S. S. Perspective of a researcher, therapist and consumer on Jewish mourning practice. Presentation at the Third Annual Conference sponsored by the International Center on Loss, Bereavement and Human Resilience– Remembrance Days and Other Days: Who, What, When and Why Do We Remember. April 10, 2013.

Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S.S., Malkinson, R. & Witztum, E. What is a good-enough therapist for working with those who have suffered bereavement. Symposium for the Israel Association of Psychotherapies Conference on Psychotherapy, Haifa, June, 2012.

Bereavement, Trauma and loss

All Day Conferences – יום עיון

April 2, 2012

אולם הכט – בניין אשכול, אוניברסיטת חיפה

ימי זיכרון וימים אחרים :מי זוכרים? מה זוכרים? מתי זוכרים ולמה זוכרים

Remembrance Days and Memorial Days:

Who, When What and Why Do We Remember? Second annual conference on this important theme.

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All Day Conference – יום עיון

April 27, 2011 – יום רביעי, 27 לאפריל 2011

אולם הכט – בניין אשכול, אוניברסיטת חיפה

ימי זיכרון וימים אחרים :מי זוכרים? מה זוכרים? ומתי זוכרים

Remembrance Days and Memorial Days:

Who, When and What do We Remember?

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Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S. S. The ubiquitousness of the Holocaust. Invited presentation for panel exploring the impact upon Germany of the Holocaust 65 years after the way. Paper presented at the International Work Group Conference on Death, Dying and Bereavement. Bergash-Gladbach/Cologne, Germany; May 2010

Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Rubin, S.S. & Malkinson, R.: The Two-Track Model of Bereavement: Working with the double helix of research and clinical practice. 3 hour presentation scheduled for Australia Bereavement Conference, October, 2011.

Research and Loss

Rubin, S.S. Organizer, chairperson and discussant for Symposium: Close Relationships– to the Living and the Dead: Similarities, differences, and significance. Israel, July, 2010. Participants: Ofri Bar Nadav, Ph.D.: Marriage, motherhood and relationship: The interplay of attachment and relationship to the deceased for married and unmarried women bereaved of their partners; Ronit Shalev, Ph.D. “I am no longer one of you”: Parents experience of child loss and its impact upon their relationship to their living children; Amit Fachler, PhD. & Ruth Sharabany, Ph.D.: Attachment and loss among young fathers: A close look at relationship themes and proximity-seeking strategies of fatherless fathers.

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Ethics

Rubin, S.S. Ethics at the University: Lessons to be Learned from Professional Ethics. Presented at the International conference on Bioethics Education: Contents, Methods, Trends. Safad, Israel; May 2010

Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Rubin, S.S. and colleagues. Parental grief, gender and child death: Findings from the perspective of the Two-Track Model of Bereavement. 36th National Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists. Bangalore, India; February, 2010.

Bereavement

Rubin, S.S. Chairman and Organizer of Symposium: New perspectives on loss and bereavement in Israel. With Ofri Bar-Nadav, Mariana Gaitini, and Ronit Shalev. Conference of the Israeli Forum for the Study of Emotions. Haifa, May, 2008.

Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Invited core participant: International Collaborative Project on Assessment, Intervention and Research for Survivors of Traumatic Loss 2 chaired by E. Rynearson and A. Salloum. Istanbul, Turkey, March, 2008.

Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Talking about Psychotherapy (“Sichoterapyah”). Presentation on the Two-Track Model of Bereavement and Interventions following Traumatic Loss. Sponsored by Dialogues/Sichot and the Israel Association of Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv, December, 2007. With Ruth Malkinson and Eliezer Witztum.

Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

When a child dies: The long term impact of loss upon parents and siblings. Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center, New York. February, 2007.

Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Loss and Bereavement: Theoretical, Research, and Clinical Considerations. University of Georgia, Presentation to faculty and students of the psychology program, Athens, Georgia, February, 2007.

Bereavement

Till Death Do Us Part?: Legacies of Bereavement and Loss over Time. Grand Rounds, Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Ether Dome, Boston, January, 2007.

Bereavement

Rubin, S.S. The death of a child and the life of a decision: The bereavement experiences of Israeli parents following organ donation or refusal . Work in progress presentation, International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement Conference, Provincetown, MA, September, 2008.

Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

Ghosts, Myths, and Relationships in Psychotherapy with Bereaved Children. Presentation at One Day conference on Mourning and Children. Sponsored by the Israel Center for Treatment of Psychotrauma, Jerusalem, March, 2006. Handout available here.

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Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Invited core participant: International Collaborative Project on Assessment, Intervention and Research for Survivors of Traumatic Loss 1 chaired by E. Rynearson and A. Salloum. Istanbul, Turkey, November, 2006.

Ethics and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S. and Shefler, G. (chairpersons and organizers). One day conference on Ethical Issues in Psychotherapy and Supervision. A 1 day satellite conference as part of the International Conference on Science, Law and Ethics 60 years after the Second World War. Haifa, May 31, 2005. Link to conference: http://medlaw.haifa.ac.il/sle/

Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

On what is new, what is correct, what is safe and what is dangerous in intervention following loss. Presentation to the Israel Association of Psychotherapy, Herziliyah, February, 2005.

Ethics and Professional Practice

Rubin, S.S. The search for the good therapist in film: Analyzing ethical and therapeutic issues in Good Will Hunting. Presentation at the 1 day conference on Ethical issues in psychotherapy and supervision as part of the International Conference of Science, Law & Ethics, Haifa, May 31, 2005.

Ethics and the Healthcare Professions

Rubin, S.S. Discussant of the book: Euthanasia in the Netherlands by Prof. Raphael Cohen-Almagor. One day conference on The Right to Die with Dignity. Portions of Presentation on the Web.

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Ethics and Psychotherapy

The ethics of therapist self-disclosures: A study of clinician attitudes and behavior in Israel. (with R. Bodor) 3rd International conference on Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, Eilat, March, 2004.

Ethics and the Healthcare Professions

The principle of respect for autonomy: Are there psychological conditions for its actualization in health care? (with M. Gaitini). 3rd International conference on Ethics Education in Medial schools, Eilat, March, 2004.

Bereavement

Keynote Address: Thirty Years after the Yom Kippur War: Mirrors, Images and Perspectives on Grief and Loss. (with R. Malkinson and E. Witztum). 21st International Conference on Grief and Bereavement: Challenges, New Developments and Coping; Eilat, March, 2004.

Ethics and Professional Practice

Ethics and psychology in changing times. Opening lectures on ethics and psychologists. Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, November, 2002.

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Keynote Address: Coping and Collapse following Bereavement. One day conference, Israel Association for Cognitive Therapy, Tel Aviv; May, 2002.

Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Keynote Address: Intrusion and exclusion in the therapeutic hour: The therapy experience of today. One day conference, Israel Association for Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv; May, 2002.

Bereavement

Rubin, S. The Paradox of Bereavement: Thoughts and Findings following the Death of a Child. Colloquium presentation at the University of Haifa’s Department of Psychology; Haifa; March 29, 2001.

Bereavement

Rubin, S. Keynote Address: Living with Loss: The Struggles and Triumphs of Bereaved Parents. Plenary invited presentation. Nineteenth King’s College Conference on Death and Bereavement. London, Ontario, Canada; May, 2001.

Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Rubin, S., Malkinson, R. & Witztum, E. Traumatic and non-traumatic bereavement: Theoretical and clinical applications. Invited plenary for the 6th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society. Jerusalem, July, 2000.

Bereavement, Trauma and loss

Rubin, S. The loss of a loved one in Jewish tradition and the loss of Jewish tradition among the loving in Israel. Plenary presentation for conference entitled: “Dying, death and grief as an impulse of an ethical and spiritual religious development in post-modern society”. Koln, Germany, March, 1999.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S. Balancing fidelity to the living and the dead: A psychological focus on the self, the deceased and life involvements. Plenary presentation for conference entitled: “Dying, death and grief as an impulse of an ethical and spiritual religious development in post-modern society”. Koln, Germany, March, 1999.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S.: Mourning the future: Potential grief and mourning trajectories following SIDS loss. Invited presentation. Eighth European Society for the Study and Prevention of Infant Death Conference. Jerusalem, June, 1999.

Ethics and Professional Practice

Rubin, S. Boundary issues in psychotherapy: New findings — but aren’t the implications a foregone conclusion. Invited presentation, Conference on Patient-therapist Interaction, sponsored by Machon Green, Ramat Aviv, September, 1998.

Ethics and Professional Practice

Rubin, S.: Dangerous Liaisons- Psychotherapy in the not so distant future. Invited presentation for National Conference: Health and Law for the Future (idan habah) in conjunction with the Celebration: Fifty Years for the State of Israel – “Israel from Jubilee to Jubilee.” Conference sponsored by the Israeli Society for Law and Medicine and the Center for Health, Law and Ethics, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Haifa, May, 1998.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S.: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Two-track Model of Bereavement: Prospect and Retrospect. Ira Nerken International Plenary Address to the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Chicago, Illinois, March, 1998.

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Research and Loss

Rubin, S.: The varying characteristics of Martians (researchers) and Venusians (therapists) and their communication and mating abilities. Presentation at symposium with John Jordan, Robert Neimeyer and Phyllis Silverman entitled: Researchers are from Mars, Therapists are from Venus, Why can’t we sit down on Earth and have lunch together. Association for Death Education and Counseling. Chicago, Illinois, March, 1998.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S.: The Two-track Model of Bereavement. Presentation at symposium on Models of Intervention with Traumatic and Non-traumatic Bereavement. (with R. Malkinson and E. Witztum). International Congress of Bereavement and ADEC. Washington, DC., June 27, 1997.

Loss, Ethics and End-of-Life Care

Rubin, S.: Understanding How Loss and Bereavement Affect End-of-Life Care. Presentation and Discussion for Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, offered by the Division of Medical Ethics, course: Towards Excellence in End-of-Life Care: Managing Care, Cost and the Law. Cambridge, Mass, June 20, 1997.

Ethics and Clinical Psychology

Rubin, S.: Ethics for the ethical clinical psychologist – Practice-oriented workshop – Israel Psychological Association’s 26th Scientific Congress, Tel Aviv, October, 1997 .

Ethics and Psychology

Rubin, S.: Looking at ethics in psychology: Theory and practice. Symposium Organizer and Chairperson, Co-author on 3 presentations with Najla Amar et. Al., Yotam Dagan et. Al. & Danah Amir – Israel Psychological Association’s 26th Scientific Congress, Tel Aviv, October, 1997.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S.: Clinical and Research Findings Utilizing the Two-Track Model of Bereavement: Implications for Hospital Practice. Scientific lecture to the Akademia fur Artzliche Fortbildung Niedersachsen, Guest lecture; Hannover, Germany, September 26, 1996.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S.: Analyzing Bereavement Interventions from Various Perspectives. Plenary as part of the Trauerbegleitung: Perspektiven fur Fortbildung und Forschung. Program sponsored by the Institute for Social Medicine and Psychology, Evangelical Academy Loccum, Hannover, Germany; September 25, 1996.

Ethics and Psychology

Rubin, S. Professional ethics: Research and thinking about individual freedom and the professions. Colloquium presentation to the Tel Aviv University Department of Psychology; Tel Aviv, May 6, 1996.

Ethics in Clinical Psychology

Rubin, S.: A Time for Ethics in Clinical Psychology: Symposium Organizer and Chairperson. Paper – Looking at ethics in psychology: Theory and practice. Israel Psychological Association’s 25th Scientific Congress, Beersheba, October, 1995.

Psychotherapy and Supervision

Rubin, S.: Supervision with “Therapeutic Space”: Clinical, Ethical and Professional Aspects. Israel Psychological Association’s 25th Scientific Congress, Beers Sheba, October, 1995.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S. The Paradox of Bereavement: Clinical and Research Findings Utilizing the Two-Track Model of Bereavement. Colloquium presentation at the Harvard University Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry Academic Teaching Conference; Boston, Massachusetts; February 16, 1995.

Bereavement

Rubin, S. and Frydman-Helfant, S.: Bereaved siblings and the Two-track Model of Bereavement: Influences on functioning and relationship to the deceased over time. Presentation to the Third National Conference on Bereavement and Israeli Society; Tel Aviv, June, 1994.

Bereavement

Schecter, N. and Rubin, S.: Do we respond differently to child loss as opposed to spouse loss: Evaluating response to loss from the perspective of the Two-track Model of Bereavement. Presentation to the Third National Conference on Bereavement and Israeli Society; Tel Aviv, June, 1994.

Bereavement

Rubin, S.: The Two-track Model of Bereavement and its use in psychotherapeutic intervention with chronic grief. Presentation to the International Conference on Grief and Bereavement; Stockholm, Sweden; June, 1994.

Psychotherapy and Supervision

Rubin, S.: Balancing Support and Criticism in Psychotherapy Supervision. Israel Psychological Association’s 24th Scientific Congress, Tel Aviv, October, 1993.

Professional Ethics

Rubin, S. (with Dror, O.): Professional Ethics and the Clinical Psychologist: Preliminary Research Findings and Implications. Israel Psychological Association’s 24th Scientific Congress, Tel Aviv, October, 1993.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S. Treating chronic grief utilizing the Two-track Model of Bereavement. Fifth International Congress on Rehabilitation in Psychiatry, Jerusalem, November, 1992.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S. Beyond the Stress Paradigm in Bereavement Research: Outcome to Loss and Relational History. Fiftieth International Convention of the International Council of Psychologists; Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July, 1992.

Psychotherapy and Supervision

Rubin, S. Psychotherapy Supervision and Therapeutic Inadequacy: The Limits of the Supervisory Contract. Fiftieth International Convention of the International Council of Psychologists; Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July, 1992.

Child Therapy and Evaluation

Rubin, S., and Moaz, D.: The Relationship Between Transitional Objects and Phenomena to Maternal Closeness and Anxiety. Israel Psychological Association’s 22nd Scientific Congress, Haifa, February, 1989. Sadeh, A., Rubin, S., and Berman, E. Object Representation and Object Relationship in the Prediction of Depression in College Students-with Avi Sadeh & E. Berman. American Psychological Association 98th Annual Convention; Boston, MA; August, 1990.

Bereavement

Rubin, S., Dichterman, D., and Tamir, G.: Bereavement in Israel: New Directions in Research. Israel Psychological Association’s 22nd Scientific Congress, Haifa, February, 1989.

Bereavement

Rubin, S., Dichterman, D., and Tamir, G.: Relationship to the Deceased and Adequacy of Functioning Among War Bereaved Israeli Parents: Further Research with the Two-track Model of Bereavement. Fourth International Congress on Stress and Adjustment in Time of Peace and War; Tel Aviv; January, 1989.

Bereavement

Rubin, S.: Relationship to the Deceased and Adequacy of Functioning Among War Bereaved Israeli Parents. International Conference on Grief and Bereavement. London, England; July, 1988.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S.: On the Impact of a Son’s Death Upon the Marital Couple: A Study of War Bereaved Parents in Israel. Conference on Loss and the Family. Ballymaloe Inn; Shangarry, Ireland; July, 1988.

Psychotherapy and Supervision

Rubin, S.: The Intensive Supervision of Psychotherapy: Anxiety and the Humanistic Perspective. American Psychological Association 95th Annual Convention; New York, NY; August, 1987.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S.: Loss, Adjustment and the Relationship to the Deceased in Israeli Parents Bereaved of Adult Sons to War. Research Seminar – Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; Chicago, June, 1987.

Bereavement and Psychotherapy

Rubin, S.: The Loss of a Son to War: The Presence of Bereavement Responses Among Israeli Parents and Some Implications for Clinicians. Presentation to the Center for Family Studies, Northwestern University. Chicago, April, 1987.

Bereavement

Rubin, S., Tamir, G., Dichterman, D., Sadeh, A. and Caspi-Yavin, Y.: A Discussion of Parental Bereavement Following the Yom Kippur and Lebanon Wars. Presentation to the National Symposium on Bereavement and Israeli Society; Tel Aviv, April, 1987.

Bereavement

Rubin, S., Dichterman, D., Tamir, G., Sadeh, A. and Caspi-Yavin, Y.: Bereaved Parents in Israel: A Preliminary Presentation on Parents Bereaved of Sons in the Yom Kippur and Sheleg Wars. Israel Psychological Association’s Twenty-first Scientific Conference. Tel Aviv, March, 1987.

Bereavement

Rubin, S.: Bereavement Outcome in War Bereaved Parents: Preliminary Data on Continuing Mourning and Attachment. Colloquium Delivered at the University of Chicago, Department of Psychiatry; Chicago, September, 1986.

Education

Rubin, S.: The Undergraduate Seminar on bereavement: A Multi-method Approach. First International Symposium on Bereavement. Jerusalem; November, 1985.

Child Therapy and Evaluation

Rubin, S. and Zaher, H.: Intervention in Traumatic Child Death: Guilt, Disorganization and Reorganization in a Moslem family. First International Symposium on Bereavement.; November, 1985.

Psychotherapy and Supervision

Rubin, S.: The Dilemmas of Supervision: Supervisors in Peer Supervision. American Psychological Association 92nd Annual Convention; Toronto, Ontario; August, 1984.

Child Therapy and Evaluation

Rubin, S., Mevarech, Z., Feldbloom, I. Sabo, N. and Sadeh, A.: “Troublesome” and “Satisfying” Children in the Schools: Behavioral and Evaluative- descriptive features. Israel Psychological Association’s Annual Convention; Jerusalem; April, 1983.

Bereavement

Rubin, S.: Beyond Adjustment: Parameters of Successful Resolution of Bereavement. Third International Congress on Stress and Adjustment in Time of Peace and War; Tel Aviv; January, 1983.

Ethics and Training

Rubin, S.: Cheating, Ethics and the Student of Professional Psychology. American Psychological Association 91st Annual Convention; Anah, California; August, 1983.

Child Therapy and Evaluation

Rubin, S., Goldberg-Hier, M. and Lippman, J.: Independent Diagnosis of Learning Disability and Emotional Disorder. American Psychological Association 90th Annual Convention; Washington, D.C.; August, 1982.

Child Therapy and Evaluation

Rubin, S., Lippman, J., and Goldberg-Hier, M.: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Findings in the Diagnosis of Borderline and Neurotic Pathology in Children. Israel Psychological Association’s 18th Scientific Convention; Haifa, Israel; February, 1982.

Bereavement

Rubin, S.: Child Death and the Woman: A Mental Health Perspective. International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women; Haifa, Israel; December, 1981.

Child Therapy

Rubin, S.: On the Relationship Between Expressive Language Deficits and Atypical Development of the Self in Preschool Children. International Congress of Psychology of the Child; Paris, France; July 4, 1979.

Bereavement

Rubin, S.: Persisting Effects of Loss: A Model of Mourning. Second International Conference on Stress and Adjustment in Time of Peace and War; Jerusalem, Israel; June 22, 1978.

Bereavement

Rubin, S.: Mourning and Anxiety. Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association; Chicago, Illinois; May 5, 1978.

Bereavement

Rubin, S.: Time Passes and Feelings Change: A Study of Recent and Non-recent S.I.D.S. Mothers. National Conference on Counseling and the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; Oak Brook, Illinois; September 30, 1976.

Honors

• Loss

• Governing Board, International Work Group on Grief and Bereavement, 2002-2008. Member (by invitation only) since 1996. 

• Education

• Member of Board of Academic Governors, Zefat Academic College, Israel. 2008 – present.

• Ethics and the Healthcare Professions

• Invited founding member of the Israel Bioethics Advisory Council, for the Israeli Knesset/Parliament, (Nezivoot Hadorot Habaeem), 2006.

• Research and Loss

• Association for Death Education and Counseling Research Award, 2005.

• Consulting editor: Ethics and Behavior (1999-present).

• Chairman, Scientific Committee, 21st International Conference on Death and Bereavement, Eilat, Israel, 2004.

• Editorial Board: Omega, Journal of Death and Dying (2003-present).

• Editorial Board: Death Studies (2000-present).

• Member, Ministry of Health, National Center for Organ Transplantation Blue Ribbon Committee assessing how to increase willingness to donate organs for transplantation in Israel. Tel Aviv, 2003 – 2004. Chairperson, Professor Rabbi Abraham Steinberg, MD.

• Member – Ethics Committee for the Ministry of Health Haifa District Health Office, 200 – 2006

• Reviewer in Hebrew: Israel Academy of Science Grant Proposals; Sichot-Israel Journal of Psychotherapy; Megamot Israel Journal; Chevra Veravcha- Social Work Quarterly; Bar Ilan University Press; Psychology (of the Israel Psychological Association); etc.

• Reviewer in English: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry; Anxiety, Stress and Coping; Death Studies; Ethics and Behavior; Omega, Journal of Death and Dying; Israel Journal of Psychiatry; Readings – Orthopsychiatry; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP); etc.

• Editor: Special Issue on Bereavement, Israel Journal of Psychiatry (with E. Witztum & R. Malkinson), 2002.

• Member, Israeli Scientific Committee, UNESCO Bioethics Chair, beginning 2001; In association with Prof. Amnon Carmi and the International Center for Health, Law and Ethics at the University of Haifa.

• Member: Hospital ethics committee, Bnai Tzion Medical Center, Haifa; 1995-1997.

• Invited Participant: International Work Group on Grief and Bereavement, Oxford, England, June 25-30, 1995.

• Member: Four Thousand Footer Club of the White Mountains, Appalachian Mountain Club – Climbed 48 official peaks in New Hampshire, (Initial ascent, 1972- Final ascent, 1995).

• Member: Scientific Committee, Third National Symposium on Bereavement in Israeli Society, 1993-94.

• Chairman: Committee on Ethics and Training, National Committee on Psychology, 1992-1994.

• Member: Organizing and Program Committees, Second National Symposium on Bereavement in Israeli Society, 1990-91.

• Member: Committees for the Ministry of Health Mental Health Services including: Planning for Mental Health Services in the Northern Region; Founding Member, Committee for Maintenance of National Standards for Community Mental Health in Israel; etc.; 1984- 1990’s.

• Representative: Joint University-National Psychology Board Committee on Establishing Standards for University Accreditation in Clinical Psychology, 1988-1989.

• Member: National Clinical (Vaadah Miktzoet), State of Israel, 1987-1988.

• Governing Board (elected): Clinical Division, Israel Psychological Association; 1982-1984.

• Chairperson: Committee on Continuing Education, Clinical Division, Israel Psychological Association; 1982-1984.

• Participant (invited): National Conference on Mental Health Issues Related to the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. (Mental Health Consultant to Northern Illinois SIDS Regional Center). Baltimore, Maryland; February 23-25, 1977.

• Fellowship recipient: Western Interstate Commission of Higher Education Fellowship in Mental Health and Retardation. California; Summer, 1970.