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| Gabriel Constans |
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Gabriel Gabriel Constans worked at the Center for Grief and Loss at Hospice Caring Project of Santa Cruz County as a social worker, educator and bereavement counselor since its founding in 1977. The center provides grief and bereavement support to individuals of all ages from various cultural, economic, familial and religious backgrounds who have or are confronting various kinds of loss and death in their lives.
Gabriel has also worked as a program manager for an innovative mental health center that provided support to people that were homeless, using drugs and alcohol and simultaneously living with a major mental illness (sometimes referred to as ?dual-diagnosis?).
As a chaplain in a metropolitan hospital?s emergency rooms and intensive care units he helped families cope with the sudden death or dying of family members and all the accompanying decisions and emotional trauma that ensued. He has been a member of the county crisis response team and worked with the coroner?s office by responding to school shootings, deaths, earthquakes, accidents and murders.
His work as a drug and alcohol counselor for teenagers and ex-convicts has looked at the long and short term consequences of self-abuse, crime and violence and provided a deep understanding and commitment to helping alleviate and lesson the resulting pain and suffering.
Dr. Constans has written extensively about death, loss and grief for numerous magazines, journals and newspapers in North America, Europe and Asia, including an ongoing column on death, dying and grief for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, which was the only column of its kind in the country. His published books include: Good Grief: Love, Loss & Laughter (Helm Publishing); Picking Up The Pieces: A program about violent death for use with middle school students (Marco Publishing); Beyond One's Own: Healing Humanity in the Wake of Personal Tragedy (Xempler Press); and Just a Heartbeat Away: When a mother dies of AIDS (Centering Corporation).
Gabriel?s doctorate is in Death Education, his Masters degree is Pastoral Counseling and his Bachelor?s was in Human Relations and Organizational Behavior. He has been a guest lecturer at numerous high schools, colleges and universities throughout California and is an adjunct professor at The Union Institute and University.
You can learn more about Gabriel Constans at: www.gogabriel.com.
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