Anticipatory Grief: Helping Patients and Families Understand and Cope
Price range: $29.95 through $390.00
Anticipatory grief is often discussed during end-of-life care. Join Dr. Kenneth Doka to learn more about what anticipatory grief is—and isn’t, and the research that has led to this important concept. Dr. Doka will be joined by Dr. Laura Bradbury, who will discuss how the concept of anticipatory grief is often seen in “real-life” scenarios with patients and families, as well as professionals, and share interventions that clinicians can use to address this type of grief.
Registration Options
- Individual: Live and on-demand viewing for one person.
- Organization/company: Live and on-demand viewing for employees within a single location.
- Organization + community license: Live and on-demand viewing for employees and community members at up to 3 locations.
Continuing Education
Professional CE hours included with registration; choose your certificate type below.
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Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Describe the original meaning of the term anticipatory grief and indicate reasons why the concept lost currency.
- Describe the reframing of the term anticipatory mourning and identify losses that patients, families, and professional caregivers may experience in the course of the illness.
- Describe the physical, emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and spiritual manifestations of grief.
- Discuss the ways that culture and grieving styles may influence the manifestations of grief.
- Identify interventive strategies that can be used with patients, families, and professional caregivers during the course of illness and at the time of death.
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