HFA Membership: Non-Hospice Non-Profit
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. 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.
Hospice Volunteers
Starting from $2.99
"What do hospice volunteers do? How do I become a volunteer? Can I handle the job?" These questions and others are addressed in this brochure.
Improving Care for Veterans Facing Illness and Death
Starting from $17.95
Living with Grief®: Improving Care for Veterans Facing Illness and Death is the companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-16-2) to the 2013 Living with Grief program and examines the impact that the military experience can have on veterans who are dying or facing grief and loss. (246 pages)
Improving Care for Veterans - Self Study
Starting from $40.95
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 also will 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:
Jealousy, Guilt & Shame in Bereavement
Starting from $46
Expert Panelists: Ken Doka, PhD, MDiv and Dale Larson, PhD Available on demand Length: 90 minutes
Grieving people may experience surprising and unsettling emotions after a death including jealousy, guilt and shame. This webinar will offer interventive strategies to help grieving individuals recognize, validate, and resolve such complicated reactions.
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Journeys with Grief
Starting from $9.95
A collection of articles from leading grief experts about love, life and loss. Provides self-help tips for those who are grieving and guidance about what to expect following a loss. Articles address topics including loss of a spouse, child, or partner; grief during the holidays; suggestions for moving forward after a loss, and more.
Journeys: Anniversary Issue
Starting from $4.99
The anniversary of a loved one's death is a difficult time. The Journeys Anniversary issue helps us to understand why this is normal, and that our societies expectations that a year is sufficient time to recover from a loss is unrealistic. 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.
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)
Supporting Bereaved College Students
Expert Panelists: Heather Servaty-Seib, PhD and Ken Doka, PhD, MDiv Available on demand Length: 90 minutes When emerging adults and college students experience loss, they may have difficulty in coping with that loss. The losses they face may be the first they’ve ever experienced, whether of a family member or a friend. These young adults are often far from their normal and natural support systems, and as they strive for independence and autonomy they may be reluctant to reach out for support. School-based counselors may have limited experience with grief. In this webinar, we focus on effective strategies for supporting college students and other emerging adults. Read an interview with Dr. Heather Servaty-Seib View Full Program Information Sheet
Supporting Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Through Serious Illness, Grief, and Loss
Starting from $30.99
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.
Supporting Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Through Serious Illness, Grief, and Loss - Self Study
Starting from $29.95
The ethical, medical management and psychosocial issues for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who face death, grief and loss can be complex. This two-hour 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: to registered individuals for 1 year after purchase Length: video is approximately two hours CE Hours: 2 CEs are available for a variety of professional boards - Board approval list CE Fees: Included in cost of registration 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.
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 $15.95
The Longest Loss: Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia (DVD) includes candid, compelling interviews and an unscripted in-studio discussion by experts who identify ways 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. The book (ISBN 978-1-893349-18-6) by the same title focuses on patient, caregiver, and health provider grief experienced in dementia illnesses. Written and edited by experts, caregivers and clinicians, The Longest Loss: Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia examines how grief associated with the illness can begin even before a diagnosis.
The Longest Loss: Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia - Self Study
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 will 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:
Traumatic and Sudden Loss - Self Study
This webinar 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, MCSW 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
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 Grief is Complicated - Book and DVD
Starting from $24.95
While grief is a normal transitional event in the lives of most individuals, some people have complications in coping with loss that merit more intensive support and treatment. Hospice Foundation of America’s newest publication, When Grief is Complicated, examines the academic research and arguments surrounding complicated grieving through case studies, interventive strategies and historical perspectives. The DVD provides an in-depth discussion of complicated grief and interventive strategies with expert panelists, Ken Doka, PhD, MDiv, Robert Neimeyer, PhD, and Therese Rando, PhD, BCETS, BCBT. Moderated by Frank Sesno.
When Grief is Complicated - Self Study
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 + 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.
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