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Clinical Social Worker and Lecturer
University of Washington, United States
Alice Ryan began her social work career more than 27 years ago and has worked in different hospitals and health care settings, including Seattle Children’s Hospital for more than 22 years, where she managed the Journey Program, the hospital’s bereavement program for child loss and childhood grief. Her work has focused on loss and separation and supporting patients and families as their illness progressed towards end of life. Alice’s social work practice is centered around creating spaciousness for the process of grieving and bereavement support, with special emphasis on the experience of complicated grief through the death of a child. Alice is particularly interested in finding ways to increase access to culturally responsive grief support for all communities. Although she values her presence in academia, she strongly identifies as a practitioner and believes that practice informs and shapes theories. Alice has a small private practice, which includes providing clinical supervision to social workers interested in embracing the humility of social work practice. She is a faculty member at the UW School of Social Work since 2010 and has been recognized with the MSW Student’s Choice Teaching Award for multiple academic years. Alice is also the recipient of Seattle Children’s Hospital Odessa Brown Ken Feldman Award, in recognition of her work of advancing inclusive bereavement support to all families and communities.
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Friday, October 25, 2024
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM CT