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Lynne Ann Despelder

Lynne Ann Despelder MA, FT

Psychology
Aptos, California, United States of America

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Lynne Ann DeSpelder, MA, FT, an author, counselor, and professor of psychology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, holds a Fellow in Thanatology (FT) from ADEC. She conducts trainings and speaks about death, dying, and bereavement both nationally and internationally, recently in Italy, England, and Japan. She is a life member of ADEC, the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement, and is a member of the international editorial board of Mortality.

Together with Albert Lee Strickland, she is the co-author of The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying (currently in its 10th edition). She and Al were recipients of the ADEC Death Education Award.
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