Adolescents and young adults are using social media to explore and to cope with grief. This webinar reviews the strengths and limitations of social media – offering sage advice to counselors on ways to monitor and utilize social media with their clients.

Expert Panelists: Kelly Rossetto, PhD, Boise State University and Michelle Post, MA, LMFT, CTBS, Manager of Donor Family Aftercare, OneLegacy

CEs: 1.5 credits available for a variety of professional boards. View the approved board list.

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Continuing education credits are available for a wide variety of professional boards for all of HFA's webinars and annual Living with Grief® program. With a single purchase your organization can provide CEs to your entire viewing audience for all programs. 

This bundle is for CEs only and does not include access to the 2019-2020 education programs. To purchase the 2019-2020 Education Partner Package of programs, click here.

Current research is showing links between trauma in childhood and poor lifetime physical and psychological outcomes, including at the end of life and during bereavement. In this program Dr. Crunk and Dr. Burke discuss their research findings and clinical implications of the relation between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and complicated grief in bereaved adults and offer some recommendations for intervention. They also provide ways to incorporate trauma assessment and intervention into bereavement settings.

On Demand Through February 19, 2021
Length: 90 minutes
Continuing Education:1.5 credits available for a variety of professional boards for $9 per certificate. Board Approvals List

Expert panelists:

Laurie Burke, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist who maintains an active private practice in Portland, OR that is dedicated to serving grieving individuals, with a primary focus on assisting traumatically bereaved adults (e.g., individuals grieving losses from homicide, suicide, fatal accident). Read more

Elizabeth Crunk, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she maintains an active grief therapy practice. Read more

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Advanced age can bring a range of losses from a spouse or partner to independence and identity. Along with experiencing multiple losses, older people are more likely suffer from multiple chronic conditions requiring complex medical care.

How can mental health professionals, healthcare providers, and the wider community support the growing number of aging Americans through these losses? 
 
Aging America panelists Ken Doka, Brian de Vries, and Pat Murphy will integrate their expertise to discuss these issues and look at innovative programs and new approaches to support bereaved older adults as they explore:

• grief experiences and support needs specific to older adults,
• programs designed to end the "conveyer belt" of runaway care in the last months of life, and
• ethical issues that may arise.

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Length: 90 minutes
CEs: 1.5 CEs included with purchase. Board Approvals List

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Living with Grief®: Before and After the Death (DVD) features a panel discussion exploring the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after the death. 
 
The companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-08-7) explores similar topics, with a special emphasis on anticipatory grief and mourning, professional self-care, DSM-V classification, disenfranchise grief, and other insights into the field of grief and bereavement.  

Living with Grief®: Children and Adolescents (DVD) features a panel discussion on the ways children and adolescents grieve and how to help them. The teleconference features voices and stories of children and adolescents as well as an expert panel of clinicians and practitioners.
 
The companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-09-5) by the same title is written by experts and examines child and adolescent grief in a variety of situations. This book includes chapters on parent loss, sibling loss, loss of a friend, play therapy, protocol for schools, and recommendations for grieving adolescents. 

The 6 disk audio series program features prominent experts:

Rev. Anita L. Bradshaw is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and formerly the Director of Supervised Ministries at Yale University Divinity School.

Rev. Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, is an ordained Lutheran minister and professor of gerontology at the College of New Rochelle.

Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, DD, is a noted author and lecturer in the fields of death education and crisis intervention.

Rev. Paul Irion is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, a retired professor, and the founding president of Hospice of Lancaster County.

Dr. Therese A. Rando, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, and the founder and clinical director of the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss.
 

Expert Panelist: Patti Anewalt, PhD, LPC, FT and Matt Metevelis, MDiv
Available on demand
Length: 120 minutes

Community tragedies affect many who work in hospice or a field related to death and dying and cause them to wonder how they would, or should, respond if a traumatic event occurred in their community. These tragedies are becoming commonplace and perhaps you are feeling an increased obligation to be prepared so you can respond appopriately or wonder where you might obtain more training or be most helpful.

Expert Panelists: Nora Luna, MEd, Kristopher Halsey, DDiv, PhD; moderated by The Rev. Paul A. Metzler, DMin

Can you competently work with culturally and spiritually diverse populations? Cultural and spiritual beliefs can have a direct impact on end-of-life decision making and care. This program looks at how hospice and palliative care providers can ensure that each patient receives care that is grounded in an understanding of individual culture and faith beliefs, and how those beliefs and practices might influence both the dying person and the grief of their loved ones.

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Disproportionate COVID-19 deaths, due in part to healthcare disparities, and recent social unrest over systemic racism, have brought the experiences of Black Americans into sharp focus. This webinar examines how centuries of inequity and trauma, both acknowledged and ignored, have manifested as cumulative grief in the Black community; how that reality impacts health, health care, death, and loss; and what can be done to affect positive long-term change.

Available on demand through August 24, 2021

Continuing Education: 1.5 hours for a wide variety of professional boards included with registration and available for 1 year. View a list of approved boards.

Expert Panelists: 

• Corey Kennard, MACM is Pastor of Amplify Christian Church, manager of Patient Experience at Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit, Michigan and also serves as an activist in the field of healthcare. Read more
• Cynthia Carter Perrilliat, MPA is Executive Director, and Co-creator of the Alameda County Care Alliance Collaborative (ACCAC) and has over 25 years of experience as a change agent in healthcare, marketing and communications, biotechnologies and community organizations. Read more

Healthcare professionals and family members often report witnessing unusual or unexpected responses when a person is nearing death. This program will explore phenomena such as terminal lucidity, near death experiences, nearing death awareness, and other end-of-life phenomena, and how clinicians can handle such experiences.

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