Representative Professional Presentations

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• • Supervision Supervision with an eye to care for the client and the therapist-supervisee's work, the supervisee's personal development, and the ethical parameters involved: Attention to the literature and a report on new research. Presentation to the Israel Defense Force's Division of Mental and Physical Health, Tel Aviv, June 2022.

  • Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

  • On pain and longing, on survival and growth – amongst bereaved clients and their therapists. Plenary presentation for Conference Day: Bridges between yesterday and tomorrow, between despair and hope, marking the establishment of assistance centers for bereaved families who have experienced violent death, sponsored by Ministry of Social Welfare and Wizo, Tel Aviv, February, 2011.

  • Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

  • Speaker, Book Launch Ceremony: Handbook for Social Workers Treating Bereaved Families, Ministry of Defense Department for Bereaved Families, Tel Aviv Museum, July 18, 2012.

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  • תורת הטיפול העובד סוציאלי במשפחות השכולות

  • Psychotherapy, Trauma and Loss

  • Loss, relationship to the deceased, meaning-making, and intervention. Keynote presentation to Clinical and Medical Psychologists Staff Development Day. February, 2010, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa.

  • Ethics

  • Rubin, S.S. Organizer and chairperson (with R. Landau, G. Shefler, & P. Werner) of a full day conference and meeting on Ethics in Academia. Mishkenot Shaanaim, Jerusalem Center for Ethics, January, 2010.

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  • Ethics

  • ETHICS and RESEARCH at the UNIVERSITY. You may view the

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  • Ethics

  • On the good, the bad and the occasionally ugly: When the research ideal meets the seductions and limitations of the real world. Presented at Ethics and Research conference, University of Haifa, March 25, 2009.

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Mysore Palace 2010, India

• 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

• The Madurai Temple Elephant, 2010

• 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

• Tamarkin Arbeit Macht Frei

• 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

• Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial Jerusalem, 2008

• 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

• Yisrael Rubin (b 1937) and Rachel Rubin (b 1935) Killed in the Holocaust, 1942

• 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.

• Jaffa Port drydock

• 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

• X’ian Cleaning Up

• 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

• Hong Kong, Memorial at the Temple, 05

• 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

• Angels at the Cloisters

• 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.