Company Profile
Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC)
Company Overview
The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) is an international professional association that promotes excellence and recognizes diversity in death education, care of the dying, grief counseling, and research in thanatology.
The primary goal of ADEC is to enhance the ability of professionals to meet the needs of those with whom they work in death education and grief counseling.
Together we:
Promote excellence and recognize diversity in death education, care of the dying, grief counseling and research in thanatology.
Provide information, support and resources to our international, multicultural, multidisciplinary membership and, through them, to the public.
Facilitate the sharing of research, theory and practice in death, dying and bereavement.
Company History
In 1976, a group of interested educators and clinicians organized the Forum for Death Education and Counseling. Over the years, the organization grew to become the Association for Death Education and Counseling® (ADEC). ADEC is the first interdisciplinary organization in the field of dying, death and bereavement.
ADEC’s primary goal is to enhance the ability of professionals and laypeople to be better able to meet the needs of those with whom they work in death education and grief counseling.
As a nonprofit organization, the membership is made up of educators, counselors, nurses, physicians, hospital and hospice personnel, mental health professionals, clergy, funeral directors, social workers, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, physical and recreational therapists, health well-being specialists and volunteers. All persons are welcome to join regardless of color, national origin, creed or gender. ADEC works to promote and share research, theories and practice in dying, death and bereavement.