Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss
Starting from $
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:
HFA Membership: For-Profit Organization
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 hospice providers and other for-profit organizations including hospitals, health systems, bereavement support centers, funeral homes, and healthcare vendors (e.g. pharmaceutical distributors, software companies).
HFA Membership: Hospice <150 ADC
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 Membership: Hospice > 150 ADC
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 Membership: Individual
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 Membership: Non-Hospice Non-Profit
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.
Supporting Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Starting from $15
The ethical, medical management and psychosocial issues for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who face death, grief and loss can be complex. This educational program focuses on the critical challenges of providing and accessing optimal end-of-life care and bereavement support for this population. Note: The focus of this program is on intellectual disability and generally does not include developmental disabilities where cognitive function is unimpaired. Expert Panelists: - Marisa C. Brown, MSN, RN - Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv - Tawara D. Goode, MA - Matthew P. Janicki, PhD - Leigh Ann Kingsbury, MPA - Teresa T. Moro, AM, LSW - Elizabeth Perkins, PhD, RNMH - Rick Rader, MD, FAAIDD On Demand: For 1 year after purchase Length: approximately 2 hours CE credits are not available for this program.
Supporting the LGBT Community Through Illness and Loss - Self-Study
Starting from $25.95
This self-study course explores the unique issues that LGBT individuals, spouses, partners and families may face as they deal with illness, death, and grief and offers both strategies and sensitivities essential in offering support. Expert Panelists: Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv, Doneley Meris, MA, and Sherrill Wayland, MSW On Demand: For 1 year after purchase Length: 90 minutes CE Hours: 1.5 CEs available for a variety of boards - Board approval list CE Fees: CEs are included
The Longest Loss: Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
Starting from $20
When the diagnosis is Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia, grief doesn’t wait for death. Grieving can begin before a formal diagnosis or in the doctor’s office when patients and families receive confirmation of illness. Over a span of what may be a decade or more, multiple losses associated with dementia become a pervasive part of everyday life for millions of patients, families, and friends. After the death, survivors’ grief may be complicated by the nature of a lengthy disease process that has changed their relationship with the deceased. Through a combination of candid, compelling interviews and unscripted in-studio discussions, experts identify how medical and social service professionals can best improve care for patients, families, and themselves while coping with loss and grief associated with these progressive illnesses. Expert Panelists:
Transforming Loss - Self Study
Starting from $35.95
Transforming Loss: Finding Potential for Growth is an inspirational program about positive change and action by the bereaved in the aftermath of loss. The program is appropriate for all professionals working in hospice and palliative care, counselors, clergy, funeral professionals, and any professional whose practice involves the bereaved. Ideal for community education and outreach, this program will touch the heart of anyone who has experienced loss with stories of people who have found meaning and purpose through loss. The program will offer clinicians tools to support and encourage transformative growth in grieving clients and will supply self-help advice for the bereaved.
Preview Transforming Loss Preview the 2018 Living with Grief Program, Transforming Loss: Finding Potential for Growth.
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Traumatic and Sudden Loss
Starting from $10
This program examines some of the ways that traumatic and sudden loss, including suicide, homicide, and community losses, can impact or complicate bereavement, and how hospices and other organizations can be better prepared to serve as a resource for these types of losses, even those that happen outside of the hospice environment. Expert Panelists: Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv; Reverend Wanda H. Jenkins, MHS; and Kim Ruocco, MSW On Demand: For 1 year after purchase Length: 90 minutes CE credits are not available for this program.
Understanding Death with Dignity Legislation: A Necessity for the Palliative Care Provider
Starting from $29.99
Expert Panelists: Frances DeRook, MD, FACC On Demand: available for 6 months after purchase Length: 90 minutes This program was first presented in September 2015. Since that time, California has passed a law legalizing physician-assisted death, and it is under consideration by a number of other state legislatures and the District of Columbia Council. This program is recorded. There is no opportunity to ask questions, which was available during the live program. **Please note, CEs are not available for this program**
Veterans Benefits - Basic Training
Starting from $30
Expert Panelist: Andrew Balafas Available on demand Length: 90 minutes Presented by Andrew Balafas, a former Army Infantry Officer and West Point graduate who now serves as the Regional Veterans Liaison for Vitas Healthcare in Chicagoland, this webinar will:
When Death and Loss are Part of the Job - Self Study
Expert Panelists: Patti Anewalt, PhD, LPC, FT, and Kenneth M. Ralph, 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 certificate included with purchase
When Grief is Complicated - Self Study
Starting from $46
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.
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*Registration price is for a single location ("site") The definition of a site is as follows:
DVDs must be used at the registered site address and can be accessed or watched from multiple locations at the registered site address. DVDs cannot be copied or viewed outside the registered site location; DVDs cannot be placed on an internal or external network for viewing outside the site address without written permission from HFA.
CE Credits for this program may only be obtained through HFA. CE instructions will be provided to the registered contact for your organization prior to the live air date and to attendees at the end of the program.
HFA’s program and program content is copyrighted. Its use and dissemination is restricted and unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Viewers agree to use the product under the purchase agreement terms, which restrict number of viewers based on registration type.