Adolescence, broadly defined, from middle school years to emerging adulthood, is a significant developmental period during which adolescents form identity, independence, and intimacy. Illness and loss profoundly influences these processes. Moreover, adolescent encounters with loss are likely to be traumatic – deaths by accident, suicide, and homicide.

This program focuses exclusively on the issues that adolescents face as they cope with loss and explores the ways that healthcare workers, hospices, educators, social workers, counselors, clergy, funeral directors, and other professionals can assist adolescents as they cope with loss. 

Expert Panelists:  

• Tashel Bordere, PhD, MS
• Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv
• Pamela Gabbay, MA, FT, Director
• Stacy F. Orloff EdD, LCSW, ACHP-SW
• Donna L. Schuurman, EdD, FT
• Carol Wogrin, PsyD, RN

Grieving people may experience surprising and unsettling emotions after a death including jealousy, guilt and shame. This webinar offers interventive strategies to help grieving individuals recognize, validate, and resolve such complicated reactions.

Expert Panelists: Ken Doka, PhD, MDiv and Dale Larson, PhD
On Demand: to registered individuals for 1 year after purchase
Length: 90 minutes
CE Hours: 1.5 CEs available for a variety of boards.  Board Approvals List. 
CE Fees: 1 CE certificate is included with purchase

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Widowed parents face unique and often overwhelming challenges as they cope with the loss of a spouse/partner, while helping their children grieve and adapting to life as a sole parent. Dr. Yopp co-leads the Widowed Parent Program at the University of North Carolina, which exists to support and learn about this subset of the grieving population that has been overlooked and underserved. Dr. Yopp, who also authored The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life (Oxford University Press), presents on recent research efforts that focus on treatment, care, and communication choices that parents make at the end of life and how those choices impact the dying experience and the bereavement of the surviving parent.

Expert Panelist: Justin Yopp, PhD

HFA members seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality, affordable, and easily-accessible professional education from the nation’s top experts.

For-Profit members are for-profit organizations including hospitals, health systems, bereavement support centers, funeral homes, and healthcare vendors (e.g. pharmaceutical distributors, software companies). 

HFA members seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality, affordable, and easily-accessible professional education from the nation’s top experts.

ADC <150 members are hospice providers with an average daily census of less than 150 patients.

HFA members seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality, affordable, and easily-accessible professional education from the nation’s top experts.

Hospice ADC ≥150 are hospice organizations with an average daily census equal to or greater than 150 patients.

HFA members seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality, affordable, and easily-accessible professional education from the nation’s top experts.

Individual members are those with a professional or personal interest in hospice care and bereavement.

HFA members seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality, affordable, and easily-accessible professional education from the nation’s top experts.

Non-Hospice Non-Profit Memberships are non-profit organizations to do not provide hospice care. 

HFA members seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality, affordable, and easily-accessible professional education from the nation’s top experts.

Volunteer Hospice members are organizations staffed entirely by volunteers.

Improving Care for Veterans Facing Illness and Death is designed to assist end-of-life care provider organizations and health and human service professionals in enhancing their sensitivities and understanding of veterans and to provide professionals with new interventions to better serve dying veterans and their families. Particular attention is placed on veteran generations now aging and most likely to be seen in end-of-life care (WWII, Korean War, Vietnam). In addition to individual interventions, the program will also look organizationally at military benefits and intersections with VA systems. Finally, the program explores the traditions and sensitivities of grieving families and resources that can assist them. 

Expert Panelists:  

• Scott T. Shreve, DO
• Deborah Grassman, ARNP
• Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv
• Paul Tschudi, MA, EdS, LPC
• Ryan Weller, MSW, LCSW

Expert Panelists: Ken Doka, PhD, MDiv, and J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP
On Demand: to registered individuals for 1 year after purchase
Length: 90 minutes
CE Hours: 1.5 CEs available for a variety of boards.  Board Approvals List. 
CE Fees: 1 CE certificate is included with purchase

This program examines the newest thinking about providing grief support in a group setting, including a discussion of group structure (closed or open-ended) and group make-up (loss-specific, gender-specific). Presenters also discuss how to deal with difficult dynamics that may arise between group members.

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Journeys is a monthly newsletter designed to offer support and practical advice to people coping with loss and bereavement. Subscribe as an individual and receive support from the experts each month for just $25. A Journeys bulk subscription is a caring and cost-effective way to provide ongoing support to the families you serve.

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