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David E. Balk
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Professor Department: Health and Nutrition Sciences Location: 4110 Ingersoll Hall Phone: 718-951-5000 x1232 Fax: 718-951-4670 Email:
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I have worked as a program evaluator and director of research in two community mental health centers in Arizona and taught college students for 30 years. I earned a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research interests have focused primarily on bereavement and adolescents, and recently in bereavement among college students. NIMH and PSC-CUNY awarded me grants to examine the topic. I wrote a college text on adolescent development and co-edited Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement. Three other persons and I edited Handbook of Thanatology: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement. I co-edited a book on Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping and am co-editing a companion book on childhood encounters with the same. My favorite music is jazz. My wife is an expert in many things, including computers, and rumor has it she can fix anything. My daughter is a very gifted teacher.
Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at URBANA-CHAMPAIGN - 1981 (Counseling Psychology) M.C., Arizona State University - 1975 (Counselor Education) M. A., Marquette University - 1970 (Theology) B. A., Conception College - 1965 (Philosophy) Areas of Expertise: My areas of expertise include adolescent development, bereavement, grief counseling, bereavement during adolescence, bereavement and college students, program evaluation, and social science research methods. Books and Publications Balk, D. E. & Corr, C. A. (Editors). (2009). Adolescent encounters with death, bereavement, and coping. New York: Springer Publishing Company. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 Balk, D. E. (2009). Sibling bereavement during adolescence. In D. E. Balk & C. A. Corr (Eds.), Adolescent encounters with death, bereavement, and coping. New York: Springer Publishing Company. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009 Balk, D. E. (2009). Adolescent development: The backstory to adolescent encounters with death and bereavement. In D. E. Balk & C. A. Corr (Eds.), Adolescent encounters with death, bereavement, and coping. New York: Springer Publishing Company. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009 A modest proposal about bereavement and recovery. Death Studies, 32(1), 84-93. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Bereavement, Outcomes, and Recovery. A special issue of Death Studies. Editor of Special Issue of the journal. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Bereavement, Outcomes, and Recovery. Editor of special issue of Death Studies. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Grieving: 22-30% or All College Students. In H. Servaty-Seib & D. J Taub (Eds.), Assisting Bereaved College Students. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 Psychology, Grief, and the Student. In C. Moreman (Ed.), Teaching death and dying. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 The adolescent's encounter with death. In K. j. Doka (Ed.), Living with grief: Children and Adolescents. Washington, DC: Hospice Foundation of America. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 Adulthood. In D. E. Balk, C. Wogrin, G. Thornton, & D. Meagher (Eds.), Handbook of Thanatology: The essential body of knowledge for the study of death, dying, and bereavement (pp. 151-163). New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007 Editor-in-Chief of Handbook of Thanatology: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2007 Working with children and adolescents. In K. J. Doka (Ed.), Living with grief: Before and after the death (pp.209-227). Washington, DC: Hospice Foundation of America. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007 Sandler, I. W., Balk, D. E., Jordan, J. R., Kennedy, C., Nadeau, J, & Shapiro, E. Bridging the gap between research and practice in bereavement: Report from the Center for the Advancement of Health. Death Studies, 29, 93-122. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 Scholarship, students, and practitioners: Bringing scholarship into the expectations of practitioners. Death Studies. 29, 123-144. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 Death and its meanings. Editor of special issue of Death Studies. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004 Recovery following bereavement: An examination of the concept. Death Studies, 28, 361-374. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004 The evolution of mourning in the United States from the early nineteenth to the early twenty-first century: Middle and upper class European Americans. In C. Bryant (Ed.), The handbook of death and dying: Essays in the social understanding of death (pp. 829-837). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003 Adolescent Bereavement and the Domain of Prevention, The Prevention Researcher, 9, 14-15. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002 Balk, D. E. & Corr, C. A. (2001). Bereavement during adolescence: A review of research. In M. S. Stroebe, R. O. Hansson, W. Stroebe, & H. Schut (Eds.), Handbook of bereavement research: Consequences, coping, and care (pp. 199-218). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2001 College student bereavement, scholarship, and the university: A call for university engagement. Death Studies, 25, 67-84. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 Wrenn, R. L., Zylicz, Z., & Balk, D. E. Hospice care and the bereavement process in two countries: Experience from the United States and the Netherlands. Illness, Crisis, & Loss, 9, 173-189. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 Adolescents, grief, and loss. In K. J. Doka (Editor), Living with grief: Helping children and adolescents adapt to loss (pp. 35-49). Philadelphia, PA: Brunner/Mazel. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2000 Awards, Honors and Fellowships ADEC Service Award. The ADEC Service Award is granted to individuals who demonstrate: Excellence in service to the Association as demonstrated by: consistent committee participation and other high-quality efforts to benefit the growth and development of the Association. Contributions to the activities of the Association as demonstrated by: innovating Association programs, conducting workshops, assisting with conferences, serving the Association. (Awards and Honors) 2005 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums Balk, D., Walker, A., Noppe, I. & Servaty-Seib, H. New Understandings about College Student Bereavement. Symposium at the 2008 Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 Keynote address at the first national conference of the Students with Ailing Mothers and Fathers, Raleigh, NC. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 Panel discussion respondent for symposium on bereavement and college students held at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 Presented talk titled, "Engaging College Students in Critical Thinking (Fear and Loathing in the Classroom)," at Brooklyn College's New Faculty Orientation Meeting, January 24, 2006. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006 Adolescents, Death, and Berevement. Invited talk at Mt. Ida College annual conference on caregivers in thanatology. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005 Bereavement and college students. Talk given at symposium on death and bereavement at 2005 Faculty Day, Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005 Engaging Students to Think Critically. Invited talk at the Fall Faculty Instructional Meeting of Barton County Community College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005 Changes in Expressions of Mourning in the United States: From 1800-2004. Pre-conference workshop, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, June, 2004. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004 Item writing for the Certificate in Thanatology exam. Presented a four-hour workshop on developing exam items for the national certification exam administered by the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Cincinnati, OH. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004 Assessing quality of life within palliative care. A paper presented at the 26th annual conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Cincinnati, OH. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2003 Bridging preactitioner/researcher gaps in death, dying, and bereavement. Symposium presented atthe 26th annual conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Chicinnati, OH. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003 Changes in expressions of mourning in the United States. A paper presented at the 25th annual conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Cincinnati, OH. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2003 Bereaved university students: Prevalence, issues, and possible university students. A paper presented at the 19th International King's College Conference on Death, Dying, and Bereavement, London, Ontario. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2001 Spirituality, human existence, and bereavement. A paper presented as part of the Spirituality Panel at the 23rd annual conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Charlotte, NC. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000 Professional Leadership Chair of the Brooklyn College Institutional Review Board (IRB) since September, 2006. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008 Chair, Mental Health Advisory Board for Students with Ailing Mothers and Fathers, a support network begun at Georgetown Univeristy and now spread to over 44 campuses in the United States. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008 Elected for 3 year term to the Board of Directors for the Association for Death Education and Counseling. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008 Member of the Course and Standing Committee at Brooklyn College. We met weekly for 2-3 hours to evaluate petitions from undergraduate students about various concerns each student would raise about courses, grades, degree requirements. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006 Pedagogical Achievements Developed fully online graduate course on Children and Death. 2008 Developed fully online graduate course on Bereavement. 2007 In collaboration with Emeritus Professor David Meagher, I developed an 18 graduate credit program, "Advanced Certificate in Grief Counseling," that the College, CUNY, and the Board of Trustees approved. 2005 |