Greater Richmond Elder Justice Shelter Initiative, Trauma Informed Care in Elder Abuse (May 19, 2026)

Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network (SWHPN), Annual Conference, Keynote Speaker, Holding Death in a Dying World: Secondary Trauma, Receptive-Affective Capacity, and Collective Resistance (May 7, 2026)

NYU Palliative Studies Program, Fellowship Program, Writing for Publication Workshop (March 30, 2026)

South Carolina Hospice and Palliative Care Annual Conference, Keynote, Rapid Assessment and Intervention with Trauma at End of Life (March 27, 2026)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical Center, Department of Palliative Care, Grand Rounds, The Intersection of Grief and Trauma in Palliative Care (March 25, 2026)

Georgetown University Medical Center/MedStar, Department of Palliative Medicine, Grief and Demoralization (March 6, 2026)

New York Medical College, Trauma Informed Consultation Group (January 28, 2026)

LiveOn NY Annual Conference, Trauma Informed Care with the Aging (January 28, 2026)

New York Medical College, Trauma Informed Practice in Healthcare (December 3, 2025)

NYU Doctorate of Social Welfare Podcast, Embracing Leadership in Social Work (November 20, 2025)

InflectionIQ, What To Say to a Colleague with Cancer (November 20, 2025)

Ackerman Institute for the Family, Trauma-Informed Sexual Healing: Survival to Pleasure (November 7, 2025)

Doctor Radio, SiriusXM. Anticipatory Grief (October 21, 2025)

ASCO, Annual Conference, Oncology and Suffering: Strategies on Coping with Grief for Healthcare Professionals (June 2, 2026)

Pesach Tikvah, Understanding Trauma (May 7, 2025)

Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network (SWHPN), Annual Conference, Rapid Assessment and Intervention with Trauma in Serious Illness (April 28, 2025)

Mount Sinai West, Social Work Grand Rounds: Trauma-Informed Healthcare (April 25, 2025)

CASES, Grief for ACT Teams Workshop (April 25, 2025)

Association on Death Education and Counseling (ADEC), Demoralization in Serious Illness and End of Life: Best Practices (April 22, 2025)

New York University, Advanced Clinical Seminars in Grief and Trauma, The Intersection of Grief and Trauma (April 10, 2025)

Ackerman Institute for the Family, Intersection of Grief and Trauma Workshop (March 20, 2025)

Jewish Family and Children’s Services of New Jersey, Trauma-Informed Care for Volunteers (March 7, 2025)

DOROT, Person-Centered, Trauma Informed Training for Holocaust Survivors (Jan-May, 2025)

Present For You, Death and Illness Doula Training: Trauma-Informed Care at End of Life (November 6, 2024)

New York Medical College: Grief, Loss and Healing (October 29, 2024)

JASA, Elder Justice Conference: Trauma Informed Engagement and Assessment in Elder Justice (September 24, 2024)

Association for Death Education and Counseling: When Dementia Caregiving is Trauma, Best Practices with Active and Bereaved Caregivers (September 17, 2024)

Creuzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation, Annual Conference: Prion Diseases and Grief (July 19, 2024)

CASES ACT Teams: Grief with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness Workhop (June 5, 2024)

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Grand Rounds: Understanding Trauma in Healthcare for Social Workers (May 28, 2024)

Nathaniel ACT Team: Grief and Trauma Workshop (May 3rd, 2024)

Social Work Hospice and Palliative Network & Mettle Health: Follow Up Conversation to Notes from the Outside (April 4, 2024)

Social Work Hospice and Palliative Network & Mettle Health: Notes from the Outside, Enhancing Bedside and Clinic Care (March 13, 2024)

Fordham University, Annual Aging Conference: Grieving When You See It Coming: Impacts on Advance Care Planning, Anticipatory Grief and Bereavement from Illness (March 11, 2024).

NYU Work Life: What Caregivers and Patients Need to Know about Palliative and Hospice Care (March 5th, 2024)

NYU, Certificate Program in Clinical Practice in Healthcare, Guest Lecturer (March 4, 2024)

DOROT, Trauma Informed Care with Older Adults Workshop (February 2nd, 2024)

LiveOn NY, Conference on Aging: Trauma Informed Care with Older Adults (February 1st, 2024)

DOROT, Patient-Centered Trauma-informed Care Consultation Groups (January 2023 - June 2024)

JASA: Providing Trauma-Informed Care, When We’re All Going Through It (October 27, 2023)

Georgetown University Medical Center/Medstar, Department of Palliative Medicine: Grief and Demoralization (October 24, 2023)

Mount Sinai – Beth Israel Hospital, Department of Palliative Medicine Conference: Trauma, Chronic Pain and Borderline Personality Disorder (October 24, 2023)

New York University, Zelda Foster Leadership Program: Conducting A Literature Review (October 18, 2023)

Pesach Tikvah, Basics of Grief, Advanced Work with Grief, Clinical Grief Cases (June 27; July 11; August 18, 2023)

Mercy Network on Aging, Reconceptualizing Anger (August 17, 2023)

New York Medical College, Making Working with Cadavers Work for You (August 10, 2022)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation, Annual Conference, Washington, DC: Grieving the Losses from Prion Disease. (July 15, 2023)

CASES [ACT Program], Fostering Resiliency Staff Workshops (February 24 – May 8, 2023)

Georgetown University Medical Center/Medstar, Department of Palliative Medicine, Trauma Informed Care at the Bedside (March 16, 2023)

Mount Sinai-Beth Israel, Grand Rounds, Department of Social Work: Trauma Informed Care at the Bedside (February 7, 2023)

Fordham University, Professional Workshop Series, Trauma Informed Healthcare: When You’re Not Doing Therapy (January 30, 2023)

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Social Work, Advanced Clinical Work in Trauma-informed Bedside Care (January 24,2023)

University of Pennsylvania, Palliative Care Grand Rounds, The Intersection of Trauma and Grief: What A Palliative Care Team Needs to Know. (December 20, 2022)

305 WEA Assisted Living, Grief and Coping with the Holidays (December 2022)

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Social Work. Trauma-Informed Care at the Bedside. (November 22, 2022)

New York Medical College, Making Working with Cadavers Work for You (November 16, 2022)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation, Grieving the Losses from Prion Disease. (November 9, 2022)

Georgetown University Medical Center/Medstar, Department of Palliative Medicine. Grief and Demoralization. (November 8, 2022)

Jefferson University Hospital, Geriatric and Palliative Care Symposium, Understanding Death Anxiety, for the Death-Adjacent Clinician (June 3, 2022)

JASA Annual Bereavement Conference, keynote speaker, The Intersection of Trauma and Grief: Using Body-Based Trauma Theories to Inform Grief Work (April 29, 2022)

Mount Sinai, Department of Social Work, Grand Rounds. Psychosocial Approaches to Serious Illness. (April 5, 2022)

New York Medical College, Managing Grief When the Care is Professional and the Pain is Personal (February 23, 2022)

Cedars-Sinai, Department of Supportive Care Medicine, Clinician Death Anxiety Workshop (February 23, 2022)

Sisters of Mercy, Grief Loss & Bereavement (October 7, 2021)

New York University, Division of Lifelong Learning: Bereavement in the Time of COVID, a 15-hour, grant-funded training for community social workers (April & May, 2021)

Georgetown-MedStar, Department of Palliative Care, Grief Loss & Bereavement in Palliative Care (August 3, 2021)

Fordham University School of Social Service, Continuing Education Program: Demoralization (2020), Dementia (2020), Death Anxiety (2021)

Nathanson, A. Understanding Demoralization in Serious Illness. Grand Rounds, Department of Social Work, Mount Sinai Hospital. New York, NY. November 3, 2020.

Nathanson, A. Clinical Work with Demoralization in Serious Illness. Fordham University, Graduate School of Social Service, Continuing Education. September 14, 2020.

Nathanson, A. A Palliative Approach to Dementia Care. Fordham University, Graduate School of Social Service, Continuing Education. September 26, 2020.

Nathanson, A. Advanced Clinical Practice with Demoralization in Cancer. Department of Social Work, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. New York, NY. June 23, 2020.

Singer, J.S., Prigerson, H., Papa, T., Rogers, M. & Nathanson, A. Pre-Loss Grief in Family Members of Cancer and Dementia Patients: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of Pre-Loss Grief Leading to an Evidence-Based Intervention. Annual Conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Atlanta, GA. November 24, 2019.

Nathanson, A. Death In An Unfair World: The Ethical Mandate for Self-Reflection. New York University, Silver School of Social Work Common Day. November 4, 2019.

Nathanson, A. Grief, Loss & Bereavement: What Mental Health Clinicians Need to Know. Mosaic Mental Health. Riverdale, NY. June 11, 2019.

Nathanson, A. & Schoenfarber, A. On The Borderline: A Team Approach to the Intersection of Borderline Personality Disorder and Advanced Illness. General Assembly of the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network, Orlando, FL. March 18, 2019.

Nathanson, A. I’d Rather Be Dead: Clinical Work with Demoralization in Advanced Illness. General Assembly of the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network, Orlando, FL. March 18, 2019.

Nathanson, A. Grief, Depression and Demoralization in Cancer. Department of Social Work, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. December 17, 2019.

Adeymi, L., Nathanson, A. & Suanino, D. Supportive Oncology: Optimizing Symptom Management For People Living with Cancer. Multi-diagnosis and Multi-Disciplinary Cancer Awareness and Education Day, NYU-Langone Winthrop University Hospital. Mineola, NY. November 3, 2018.

Pinto, P. & Nathanson, A. Palliative Care for Improving Outcomes in Breast Cancer. Breast Health Tumor Board, NYU-Langone Winthrop University Hospital. Mineola, NY. November, 2018.

Nathanson, A. Planning Ahead for When Hospice Can Help. Society for Ethical Culture, Empowering Ethical Elders Lecture Series. New York, NY. April 5, 2018.

Nathanson, A. & Rogers, M. When Ambiguity Ends: Grieving the Losses of Dementia Caregiving After a Death. General Assembly of the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network, Boston, MA, March 13, 2018.

Nathanson, A. Assessment and Management of Psychological and Psychiatric Symptoms in Patients and Families. Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care: Palliative Care in the Patient-Centered Medical Home, Keynote Speakers. New York, NY. March 2018.

Nathanson, A. Working with Dementia Caregivers. New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia, Bereavement Rounds. November 2017.

Nathanson, A. Anticipatory Grief in Dementia Caregiving. New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia, Bereavement Rounds. September 2017.

Nathanson, A. Fostering Attendance and Cohesion in Support Groups. NY State Department of Health, Grant Contractor Conference, Albany, NY. April 2017.

Foerg, A. & Nathanson, A. Meeting Them Where They’re At: An Organizational Approach to Addressing the Needs of the Dementia Caregiving Dyad. Annual Conference on Aging, Silberman School of Social Work, New York, NY. April 2016.

Ho, J. J., Brown, C. K., Bemis, H., Cotter, L. E., DiBiase, J., Gerber, M. R., Greenfield, D. E., Kusmaul, N., Matinrad, H., Mills, J., Nathanson, A., Peck, S., Radbill, L. M., Wallace, C. L., & Rosa, W. E. (2026). Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Trauma-Informed Care. Journal of palliative medicine, 10966218251366151. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10966218251366151

Brenner, K.O., Nathanson, A., & Sławkowski-Rode, M. (2025). Oncology and Suffering: Strategies on Coping With Grief for Health Care Professionals. American Society of Clinical Oncology Educational Book, 45:3 https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/EDBK-25-482244

Knowles, K., Nathanson, A., Sloan, D. & Christ, G. (2024). Grief, Loss and Bereavement in Oncology and Palliative Care. In Oncology and Palliative Social Work: Psychosocial Care for People Coping with Cancer, Head, B., Messner, C., Miller, B. & Christ, C., eds. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197607299.003.0015

Nathanson A, Otis-Green S. (2023). Advance Care Planning Conversations: Laying the Foundation for Goal-Concordant Care at End of Life. Cancer Treat Res. 2023;187:73-84. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-29923-0_6. PMID: 37851220.

Brown, C.K., DiBiase, J., Nathanson, A. & Cadet, T.J. (2023) Trauma-Informed Care for Inpatient Palliative Care Social Work: Applying Existing Models at the Bedside, Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, 19:4, 309-325, DOI: 10.1080/15524256.2023.2256479

Ruden, M. & Nathanson, A. (Eds). (2023) The Practice of Clinical Social Work in Healthcare. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31650-0

DiBiase, J. & Nathanson, A. Trauma-Informed Work with Serious Illness.

Robertson, K. & Nathanson, A. Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disease.

Nathanson, A. (2023) The Sadness, The Madness and God. in Mirrors and Windows. Altilio, T., Kelemen, A. & Leff, V., eds.

Nathanson, A. & Latimer, A. (2022). Dementia: Challenges and Opportunities Across the Trajectory. In Altilio, T., Otis-Green, S. & Cagle, J., eds. The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work, 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford Press.

Nathanson, A., Sumser, B., Otis-Green, S. & Miller, BJ. (2021). Let It Break. GeriPal. https://www.geripal.org/2021/01/let-it-break.html

LaFlam, J. & Nathanson, A. (2021). Chronic Illness & Mental Health: An Introductory Guide. Choosing Therapy. https://www.choosingtherapy.com/chronic-illness-mental-health/

Nathanson, A. (2021). Grief Lessons of the Apocalypse: Self-Care is a Joyful Jab in the Arm. In C. Tosone (Ed.). Shared Trauma, Shared Resilience During a Pandemic: Social Work in the Time of COVID-19. Springer.

Nathanson, A. & Rogers, M. (2020). When Ambiguous Loss Becomes Ambiguous Grief: Clinical Work With Bereaved Dementia Caregivers. Health & Social Work. doi: 10.1093/hsw/hlaa026

Nathanson, A. & Ruden, M. (2020). Life-Mapping: An Adaptation for Self-Reflection on Mortality Awareness. In E. Counselman-Carpenter & A. Redcay, (Eds.). Working With Grief and Traumatic Loss: Theory, Practice, Personal Reflection & Self-Care. San Diego, CA: Cognella Publishing.

Nathanson, A. (2017). A deathbed, and two dozen packets of jam. Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, 1-4. doi:10.1080/15524256.2017.1282924.

Nathanson, A. (2014). Whose life is ending and how do I plan for that? Narrative of a student intern. Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, 10(2), 109-111. doi:10.1080/15524256.2014.906374.

• Embracing Leadership in Social Work, New York University Podcast

• Survivor’s Guilt, Vox

• COVID Survivor’s Guilt, NPR’s Weekend Edition

• Grief Workshops, Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease Foundation 2022 / 2023 / 2024

• Trauma Therapy, in The New York Times

• Building a Patient-Centered, Trauma-Informed Holocaust Survivor Support Program, Jewish Federation Center on Aging, Trauma and Holocaust Survivor Care

• Death Anxiety, Bloggingheads Podcast

• Pandemic Grief, in HuffPost

• Surviving Mother’s Day Without Your Mom and How to Give Condolences, Reader’s Digest

• Illnesses Happen to People, Latinx in Social Work Podcast

• Nostalgia, in Discover Magazine

• Disenfranchised Grief‍, Anticipatory Grief, Mourning Quotes, and Ambiguous Grief, The Healthy

• Coping with COVID, Parade

• Staying Grounded, Next Avenue

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• Adaptive Leadership Program, New York University

• CASES (ACT Program): three contracts to develop and implement grief and trauma programs for interdisciplinary staff working with psychiatric illness and criminal-legal system involvement

• DOROT USA: develop and implement trauma-informed support group program for older adults, including curriculum development, staff training and ongoing clinical consultation

• ESPEC Training Program: provide content and feedback on specialized palliative care curriculum development and training materials

• Fordham University School of Social Service 

• JASA

• MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care

• Mount Sinai Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care

• National Alliance on Mental Illness, New York Metro Chapter: develop a model for and train staff on suicide bereavement groups and trauma

• New York Medical College: develop and deliver targeted trainings to interdisciplinary medical and allied health students relating to grief, cadaver anxiety and trauma

• Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Northeast Community 

• Zelda Foster Program for Studies in Palliative Care, New York University

• 305 West End Ave Assisted Living