This Living with Grief® program addresses methods, strategies and practices that can be used to provide psycho-social and other support to terminally ill patients, their families and close networks as they cope with impending death. Particular emphasis is placed on how to manage sources of conflict that often emerge near life’s end, as well as how to help individuals and families find meaning at life’s end.

Expert panelists:
Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv
Betty Kramer, PhD, MSSW
Betty Ferrell, PhD, MA, FAAN, FPCN

On Demand or DVD: to registered individuals for 1 year after purchase
Length: approximately 2 hours

CE credits are not available for this program

Expert Panelists: Stephen Fleming, PhD, CPsych; Kim Ruocco, MCSW; and Ken Doka, PhD, MDiv
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: CEs are included with registration.

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In the program, Supporting Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities through Illness, Grief, and Death, experts discuss in a four segment panel the topics of supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities through life-ending illness as well as grief and loss.  

Expert Panelists: Heather Stang, MA, C-IAYT

Mindfulness-based interventions are becoming more and more popular in hospice and mental health settings, and they appear to be a one-size-fits-all solution to alleviate suffering. Care must be taken, however, to offer an appropriate style of meditation for the client’s circumstance, and to do so with a trauma-sensitive approach. This webinar explores how meditation can help with the physical and emotional reactions to grief, and in particular how it can help bereaved people cope with a wide range of difficult emotions.

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Continuing research on the adaptation of Americans to bereavement in the context of the pandemic has expanded to include those suffering losses from causes beyond COVID-19. The unique circumstances under which people die and grieve since March of 2020 are nearly universal, affecting virtually all individuals facing the death of a loved one.

Dr. Niemeyer will compare the impact of loss because of COVID-19, other natural causes, and violent death, and consider the role of meaning making in mediating the circumstantial risk factors that can complicate grief and impair functioning of survivors. Utilizing clinically useful screeners such as the Pandemic Grief Scale (PGS) for severe grief responses in the pandemic, the speakers will suggest how to bridge from assessment to intervention and offer principles and practices to inform professional support.

On Demand for one year after purchase

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

Expert Panelist: 

• Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis; maintains an active consulting and coaching practice; and also directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, Read more

While most people are able to cope with the pain of loss, up to 10 to 20 percent of bereaved persons have more complicated reactions that may impair and impede functioning for a prolonged period of time. This program is designed to assist counselors and others working with bereaved persons understand, assess and assist individuals who may be experiencing such complicated forms of bereavement.  The presentation begins with an overview of contemporary work on complicated grief, then explores interventive strategies to support grievers experiencing complicated forms of grief. 

Expert panelists:
Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv
Robert Neimeyer, PhD
Therese Rando, PhD, BCETS, BCBT 
Moderated by Frank Sesno

On Demand: to registered individuals for 1 year after purchase
Length: program is approximately 2 hours + selected chapters of HFA’s companion book (approx. 30min reading time)
CE Hours: 2.5 CEs are available for a variety of professional boards Board approval list
CE Fees: CEs are included

HFA now offers CE credits for multiple participants through most Self-Study (DVD or online) courses!  Contact HFA at 202-457-5811 or email us at educate@hospicefoundation.org to inquire about CEs for multiple participants. Program access fees remain the same; CEs are included in course fees for the registered user and are $12 per additional participant per course.* Please note that self-study courses accommodate individual learners only unless prior arrangements are made through HFA for additional certificates.