David E. Balk
Professor
Health and Nutrition Sciences
Location: 4110a Ingersoll Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x1232
Fax: 718.951.4670
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Professor Balk has worked as a program evaluator and director of research in two community mental health centers in Arizona and taught college students for 30 years. His research interests have focused primarily on bereavement and adolescents, and recently in bereavement among college students. NIMH and PSC-CUNY awarded him grants to examine the topic. He wrote a college text on adolescent development; he also co-edited Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement; Handbook of Thanatology: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement; and Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping. He is co-editing a companion book to the latter on childhood encounters with the same editors.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Illinios 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:
Professor Balk's 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
"Adolescent Development and Bereavement: An Introduction." The Prevention Researcher 18.3: 3-9. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Does Coping With Bereavement Occur in Stages?" Beyond Kübler-Ross: New Perspectives on Death, Dying, and Grief. Eds. K.J. Doka and A.S. Tucci. Washington, D.C.: Hospice Foundation of America. 45-60. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
Helping the Bereaved College Student. New York: Springer Publishing Company. (Books and Publications: Book) 2011
Balk, D.E., D. Zaengle and C.A. Corr. "Strengthening Grief Support for Adolescents Coping With a Peer's Death." School Psychology International 32: 144-62. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Balk, David E., Illene Noppe, Irwin Sandler and James Werth. "Bereavement and Depression: Possible Changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: A Report From the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Association for Death Education and Counseling." Omega 63.3: 199-220. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Prevalence and Severity of College Student Bereavement Examined in a Randomly Selected Sample." Death Studies 34.5. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
Corr, Charles A. and Balk, David E. Children's Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping. New York: Springer Publishing. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2010
"Adolescent Development: The Backstory to Adolescent Encounters with Death and Bereavement." Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping. Eds. D.E. Balk and C.A. Corr. New York: Springer Publishing Company. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009
"Sibling Bereavement during Adolescence." Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping. Eds. D.E. Balk and C.A. Corr. New York: Springer Publishing Company. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009
Balk, D.E. and C.A. Corr (editors). Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping. New York: Springer Publishing Company. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009
"A Modest Proposal about Bereavement and Recovery." Death Studies 32.1: 84-93. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
"Grieving: 22-30% of All College Students." Assisting Bereaved College Students. Eds. H. Servaty-Seib and D.J. Taub. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
"Psychology, Grief, and the Student." Teaching Death and Dying. Ed. C. Moreman. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
"The Adolescent's Encounter with Death." Living with Grief: Children and Adolescents. Ed. K.J. Doka. Washington, D.C.: Hospice Foundation of America. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
Editor. "Bereavement, Outcomes, and Recovery." Special Issue of Death Studies. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
Editor. "Bereavement, Outcomes, and Recovery." Special issue of Death Studies. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
"Adulthood." Handbook of Thanatology: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement. Eds. D.E. Balk, C. Wogrin, G. Thornton and D. Meagher. New York: Routledge. 151-63. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007
"Working with Children and Adolescents." Living with Grief: Before and After the Death. Ed. K.J. Doka. Washington, D.C.: Hospice Foundation of America. 209-27. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007
Handbook of Thanatology: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement. Editor-in-chief. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2007
"Scholarship, Students, and Practitioners: Bringing Scholarship into the Expectations of Practitioners." Death Studies 29: 123-44. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
Sandler, I.W., D.E. Balk, J.R. Jordan, C. Kennedy, J. Nadeau and E. Shapiro. "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
"Recovery Following Bereavement: An Examination of the Concept." Death Studies 28: 361-74. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
Editor. "Death and Its Meanings." Special issue of Death Studies. (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." The Handbook of Death and Dying: Essays in the Social Understanding of Death. Ed. C. Bryant. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. 829-37. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003
"Adolescent Bereavement and the Domain of Prevention." The Prevention Researcher 9: 14-15. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002
"College Student Bereavement, Scholarship, and the University: A Call for University Engagement." Death Studies 25: 67-84. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001
Balk, D.E. and C.A. Corr. "Bereavement during Adolescence: A Review of Research." Handbook of Bereavement Research: Consequences, Coping, and Care. Eds. M.S. Stroebe, R.O. Hansson, W. Stroebe and H. Schut. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. 199-218. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2001
Wrenn, R.L., Z. Zylicz and D.E. Balk. "Hospice Care and the Bereavement Process in Two Countries: Experience from the United States and the Netherlands." Illness, Crisis, & Loss 9: 173-89. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001
"Adolescents, Grief, and Loss." Living with Grief: Helping Children and Adolescents Adapt to Loss. Ed. K.J. Doka. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel. 35-49. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2000
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
ADEC Service Award. The ADEC Service Award is granted to individuals who demonstrate both 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, and contributions to the activities of the association as demonstrated by innovating association programs, conducting workshops, assisting with conferences and serving the association. (Awards and Honors) 2005
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Adolescents, Death and Bereavement." 2nd annual conference of the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital. Grand Rapids, Mich. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Adolescents: The Ignored Bereaved." 2010 Biennial Conference of the Columbia University Seminar on Death. March 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Balk, David and Andrea Walker. "TAT Stories from Bereaved College Students." Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. April 10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Balk, David, Andrea Walker, Jeffrey Berman, Illene Noppe and Terry Martin. "Thanatology Stories from College Classrooms," Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Kansas City, Mo., April 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"New Understandings of Bereavement." 3rd annual symposium in honor of Cicely Saunders, sponsored by the Visiting Nurse Service of New York Hospice Care. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Balk, D., A. Walker, I. Noppe and H. Servaty-Seib. "New Understandings about College Student Bereavement," Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Keynote address. First National Conference of the Students with Ailing Mothers and Fathers. Raleigh, N.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Engaging College Students in Critical Thinking (Fear and Loathing in the Classroom)." New Faculty Orientation Meeting. Brooklyn College, January 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
Panel discussion respondent for symposium on bereavement and college students. Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association. New Orleans. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Adolescents, Death, and Berevement." Mount Ida College annual conference on caregivers in thanatology. Newton, Mass. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005
"Bereavement and College Students." Symposium on death and bereavement, Faculty Day. Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"Engaging Students to Think Critically," Fall Faculty Instructional Meeting of Barton County Community College. Great Bend, Kan. (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 - La Crosse. (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. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004
"Assessing Quality of Life within Palliative Care." 26th Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Cincinnati. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2003
"Bridging Practitioner/Researcher Gaps in Death, Dying, and Bereavement." 26th Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Cincinnati. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"Changes in Expressions of Mourning in the United States." 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Cincinnati. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2003
"Bereaved University Students: Prevalence, Issues, and Possible University Students." 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." Spirituality Panel, 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Charlotte, N.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000
Professional Leadership
Chairman, Academic Standing Committee, Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2011
Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee, Association for Death Education and Counseling Board of Directors. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2011
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, School of Natural and Behavioral Sciences. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Associate editor, peer-reviewed journal Death Studies. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2010
Book review editor, peer-reviewed journal Death Studies. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2010
Chairman, Academic Standing Committee, Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Chairman, Brooklyn College Institutional Review Board. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Editorial board member, peer-reviewed journal Omega. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2010
Member, board of directors, Association for Death Education and Counseling. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
Associate editor, peer-reviewed journal Death Studies. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2009
Book review editor, peer-reviewed journal Death Studies. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2009
Chairman, Academic Standing Committee, Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009
Chairman, Brooklyn College Institutional Review Board. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009
Editorial board member, peer-reviewed journal Omega. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2009
Member, board of directors, Association for Death Education and Counseling. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Member, Brooklyn College Science Division Promotion and Tenure Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009
Associate editor, peer-reviewed journal Death Studies. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2008
Book review editor, peer-reviewed journal Death Studies. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2008
Chairman, Brooklyn College Institutional Review Board, September 2006-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008
Chairman, Mental Health Advisory Board for Students with Ailing Mothers and Fathers, a support network begun at Georgetown Univeristy and now spread to more than 44 U.S. campuses. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008
Editorial board member, peer-reviewed journal Omega. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2008
Elected for three-year term to the board of directors, Association for Death Education and Counseling. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008
Member, Course and Standing Committee, Brooklyn College. Met weekly for two to three hours to evaluate petitions from undergraduate students about various concerns each student would raise about courses, grades and 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
Balk, David E. and David Meagher. Developed an 18-credit graduate program, "Advanced Certificate in Grief Counseling," approved by Brooklyn College, CUNY, and the CUNY Board of Trustees. 2005
