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FIFSWAA Series: Grief, Loss, and Bereavement Across the Life Course
April 13 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Presented by the FIFSW Alumni Association
Grief is a normal response to loss. The loss of a loved one and/or the experience of illness and disability can occur at any time across the life course. Come and learn how to navigate grief and bereavement and transform them into meaningful opportunities for living even in the presence of complicated grief.
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About the presenter
Dr. Laura Roberta Moll is a registered social worker (MSW) and holds a PhD in Rehabilitation Science from the University of Toronto. With over 25 years of experience in disability and aging, she has worked as a counselor for students with disabilities in post-secondary settings, engaged in diverse research initiatives, and taught at the college and university level.
Dr. Moll’s research expertise centers on qualitative studies exploring the experience of aging with cerebral palsy and other childhood-onset disabilities, with implications for rehabilitation practice and theory. Her work has been deeply informed by her own experience of successful recovery from a pediatric traumatic brain injury resulting in left hemi-paralysis at age six.
She has contributed to knowledge translation initiatives at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, served as Research Coordinator for an international study on job withdrawal factors following spinal cord injury, and has been a sessional instructor at the University of Toronto and Brock University, where she designed and taught courses in gerontology. Dr. Moll is affiliated with the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto, where she presents on grief and traumatic brain injury, and aging with disability.
Clinically, Dr. Moll is a client-centered certified grief therapist and bereavement educator with comprehensive knowledge of Jewish practices and traditions.