Attachment Theory and Grief Support - Self Study
Starting from $
Before and After the Death
This program explores theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after the death. A particular focus is placed on areas where understandings of grief have been challenged. Expert Panelists:
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.
Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss
Available on demand
Starting from $28.95
Living with Grief: Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss, the book (ISBN 9781893349179), focuses on types of loss adolescents may face and ways to assist. Some of the foremost experts in the field share their insights in this 24 chapter volume. Click here to order the on-demand program.
Starting from $20
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:
Helping Mourners Deal with Jealousy, Guilt & Shame - Self Study
Starting from $25.95
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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Helping Widowed Parents Cope with Parenting, Loss, and Life
Starting from $39
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 Membership: For-Profit Non-Hospice Organization
Starting from $625
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 Membership: Hospice <150 ADC
Starting from $250
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
Starting from $350
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
Starting from $50
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.
HFA Membership: Volunteer Hospice
Starting from $125
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
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:
Innovative Techniques in Managing Grief Groups - Self Study
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. View the full program information sheet.
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