Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss
Available for self-study
Starting from $28.95
The Living with Grief: Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss DVD addresses issues adolescents face as they cope with loss and explores the ways that hospices, educators, social workers, counselors, clergy, funeral directors, and parents can assist grieving adolescents. 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.
Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss - Self Study
Starting from $40.95
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. Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss focuses exclusively on the issues that adolescents face as they cope with loss. This program 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
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 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
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.
Journeys: Newly Bereaved Issue
Starting from $4.99
The Newly Bereaved issue is a great first step in supporting someone who has recently lost a loved one. Written by experts in the field, Newly Bereaved offers support, caring advice, and validation.
Journeys: Spanish Language Issue
Starting from $16.95
An issue of Journeys for Spanish speakers who have recently lost a loved one. With cultural differences in mind, it introduces the grieving process and lets readers know what to expect over the coming months. Esta edision especial de Journeys es acerca de personas de habla espana que recientemente hayan perdido un ser querido. Con las diferencias entre hispano y anglas culturas en mente, lo introduce a lectores al duelo y permite que ellos entiendan lo que espera sobre los meses venideros. Every order will also come with one English translation of the issue.
Journeys: Spring Holidays Issue
Feelings of grief hit survivors especially hard during the holidays, and spring holidays are no exception. Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter and Passover can trigger emotions associated with the special memories shared with loved ones. This special issue of Journeys addresses grieving that comes with these events and gives readers advice on how to cope with them. The issue is available as a single issue or in packs of 50 or 100. Organizations such as hospitals, churches and hospices have used Journeys Special Issues to support and inform their community. **This issue is available for pre-order only. Issues will ship on March 6.**
Journeys: Understanding Support Groups Issue
The Understanding Support Groups issue is designed to demystify the bereavement support group experience and offers articles that help readers decide if a group support could provide valuable assistance. The issue is available as a single issue or in packs of 50 or 100. Organizations such as hospitals, churches and hospices have used Journeys Special Issues to support and inform their community.
Journeys: Winter Holidays Issue
Starting from $4.24
LGBTQ - Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care
Starting from $46
Expert Panelist: Kimberly Acquaviva, PhD, MSW, CSE Available on demand
Living with Grief Library
Starting from $184.95
A collection of Living With Grief books published by the Hospice Foundation of America.
Loss in Later Life
Starting from $6.95
In Living with Grief®: Loss in Later Life (DVD), a panel discussion by experts on the aging population evaluates ways that professionals can more effectively assist those coping with the range of losses which occur later in life. The accompanying novel by the same title (ISBN: 978-1-893349-03-2) describes the losses experienced in later life and ways professionals can effectively serve those coping with loss.
Managing Conflict, Finding Meaning - Helping Families at Life's End
Starting from $19.95
Methods, strategies and practices that can be used to provide psycho-social and other support to terminally ill patients, their families and close networks. Living with Grief®: Managing Conflict Finding Meaning: Supporting Families at Life’s End is the companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-20-9) to the 2016 Living with Grief® program and examines how to better help families cope with the inevitable conflicts that arise during the difficult journey through end-of-life care. (144 pages)
Managing Conflict, Finding Meaning - Self Study
Starting from $35.95
The 2016 program in HFA’s award-winning Living with Grief® series 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 will be 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: program is approximately 2 hours + 3 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.
Pain Management and End-of-Life Care
Strategies to treat challenging pain cases and how regulations may affect them
Spirituality and End-of-Life Care
Starting from $14.48
Living with Grief®: Spirituality and End-of-Life Care (DVD) features a dynamic discussion about the differences and relationship between spirituality and religion, while addressing spirituality throughout illness, death, and grief. The companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-12-4) by the same title includes 17 chapters and multiple sidebars on providing sensitive and effective spiritual care at the end of life, as well as how hospice and palliative care organizations can incorporate spiritual care into existing care plans. (245 pages)
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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.