All of the videos are available in both 2-1/2 hour format ($25 each) and one-hour format ($15 each). Full sets are available for a special price ( Order Online).
Pain Management at the End of Life: Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Practice (2006)
The teleconference examines the gap between knowledge and application of effective pain control in the person with a terminal condition, including pharmaceutical, psycho-social, spiritual, and complementary aspects of pain management. The distinguished panel of ethicists, educators and hospice experts looks at laws and regulations that hinder the practice of pain management and examines ways in which health care workers and the general public can work together to improve the societal approach to pain management. (Only available on DVD)
Panel:
Yvette Colón, MSW, ACSW, BCD
Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv
W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma
Kathleen M. Foley, MD
Kelli Gershon, APN, RN
William Lamers, Jr., MD
Brad Stuart, MD
Douglas J. Weschules, PharmD, BCPS
Living with Grief: Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life (2005)
A panel of noted ethicists, educators, gerontologists, and hospice experts who examine timely and important issues regarding the social perspectives of medical ethics and how various health care settings may influence ethical decisions in hospitals, nursing homes and hospices. The panel also examines how cultural differences may influence ethical choices.
Intended for anyone involved in caregiving or dealing with end-of-life issues, this program offers constructive advice to those who are facing the difficult circumstances that surround caring for someone who is dying. (Also available on DVD)
Panel:
Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv
William H. Colby, JD
Charles Corr, PhD
Richard Fife, PhD
Jack D. Gordon
Bernice Harper, MSW., MSc.PH, LLD
Bruce Jennings, Senior Research Scholar
Bill Lamers, MD
JoAnne Reifsynder, RN, PhD
Living with Grief: Alzheimer's Disease (2004)
An expert panel discusses what is known medically about the diagnosis, progression, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The panel also focuses on particular grief issues that patients and families face during the course of this illness and examines the challenges facing policy advocates. (Also available on DVD.)
Panel:
Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv
Parag Dalsania, MD
Jack D. Gordon
Lisa Gwyther, MSW, LCSW
William Haley, PhD
Lin E. Noyes, RN, PHD
Therese Rando, PhD
Leslie Fried, JD
Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy (2003)
This conference looks at factors that define a public tragedy and offer insight and advice to organizations and professionals as they support their communities and help those coping with loss. The effects of tragedies such as 9-11, Hurricane Andrew, Oklahoma City and other significant national events are examined.
Panel:
Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv
LaVone V. Hazell, MS
Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, MA, RN, LPC
Nadine Reimer Penner, ACSW, LSCSW
Marlene A. Young, PhD, JD
Living with Grief: Loss in Later Life (2002)
This conference examines the needs of our aging population and explores ways that professionals can more effectively assist those coping with the range of losses found in later life.
Panel:
George A. Blackwell, DMin
Robert N. Butler, MD
Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv
Patricia Kelley, CRNH
Miriam S. Moss, MA
Phyllis R. Silverman, PhD
J.R. Williams, MD
Caregiving and Loss: Family Needs, Professional Responses (2001)
This conference explores the ways that professionals can better understand and respond to the needs of family caregivers. The conference will emphasize issues such as the contexts of caregiving, as well as governmental and work policies that influence the experience of caregiving. Particular attention will be given to creating strategies that professionals can use to assist families in responding to the challenges and opportunities of caregiving, inform families as they make critical decisions about end-of-life care, and support families as they cope with their grief.
Panel:
Joyce D. Davidson, MS
Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv
Bernice Catherine Harper, MSW, LLD
Carol Levine, MA
Susan Reinhard, RN, PhD
Myrl Weinberg, CAE
Living With Grief: Children, Adolescents and Loss (2000)
While we often discuss how we grieve as adults, rarely do we consider the losses that children and adolescents must face. Whether they are grieving the death of a parent or grandparent, or facing the losses involved in re-locating or divorce, children and adolescents often do not know how to cope. This teleconference considers the range of child and adolescent loss, as well as ways in which developmental level may affect responses to loss. It will present practical advice and interventive techniques that we can use to empower children and adolescents with effective coping skills.
Panel:
Nancy Boyd Webb, DSW, BDC
Charles Corr, PhD
Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv
Margarita Suarez, RN, MA
Dottie Ward-Wimmer, RN, MA, LPC
Betsy Wendt, MA
Living With Grief: At Work, At School, At Worship (1999)
Whether at work, at school, at worship or at home, grief not only affects our moods and motivation but our ability to function and our relationships as well. This teleconference considers the ways that grief influences us in varied settings, offering humane and practical suggestions to workplaces, schools and places of worship as to how they can assist those struggling with illness and loss. The panel features: Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, Michael Jemmott, MDiv, Michael Kirby, MSW, and Marcia E. Lattanzi-Licht, RN, LPC.
Panel:
Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv
Michael Jemmott, MDiv
Michael Kirby, MSW
Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, RN, LPC
Living With Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve (1998)
An exploration of how factors such as culture, spirituality, gender and age influence the ways we experience grief and express loss. Living With Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve features discussions of how culture and spirituality can either help or hinder the grieving process, as well as how patterns of coping with grief vary by gender, class, age or developmental levels. The panel features: Ronald Barrett, PhD, Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, Bernice C. Harper, MSW, Patricia Murphy, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Bradley Stuart, MD.
Panel:
Ronald K. Barrett, PhD
Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv
Bernice C. Harper, MSW
Patricia A. Murphy, RN, PhD
Bradley H. Stuart, MD
Living With Grief: When Illness Is Prolonged (1997)
What are the specific issues of grief and bereavement during and after chronic illnesses? Living With Grief: When Illness Is Prolonged explores the particular stresses posed by different diseases such as cancer, AIDS, and Alzheimers. In addition, it focuses on the common problems that grievers may experience throughout and after the illness. The panel features: Betty Davies, PhD, Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, William Lamers, Jr., MD, and Therese A. Rando, PhD.
Panel:
Betty Davies, RN, PhD
Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv
William M. Lamers, Jr., MD
Therese A. Rando, PhD
Living With Grief: After Sudden Loss (1996)
Living With Grief: After Sudden Loss addresses the intensity and lack of preparation of sudden death as we deal with losses like those that occur from suicide, homicide, accidents, heart attack or stroke. A panel of experts in the fields of grief and bereavement discuss the complicated reactions and needs of those who are mourning a loss and the caregivers who work with them.
Panel:
Kenneth J.
Doka, PhD
Charles M. Figley, PhD
Janice Harris Lord, MSSW
Patricia Murphy, RN, PhD,
FAAN
Therese A. Rando, PhD.
