Board-approved online and home study courses for busy professionals.
Online Courses
Engaging Faith Communities in End-Of-Life Care - An online course for clergy and faith leaders designed to enhance understanding of issues related to end of life care, and to provide techniques to help clergy and lay leaders to assist members of their congregations who are facing an end-of-life medical crisis. This course was developed by Hospice Foundation of America in cooperation with the Florida Department of Elder Affairs and The Center on Aging at Florida International University.
Living With Grief: Diversity and End-of-Life Care focuses on ways of understanding diversity and how cultural histories, traditions and beliefs can affect end-of-life-care, and also examines the most current theories and practices in this area.
Living With Grief: Children and, Adolescents focuses on the experience of grieving children and adolescents and the ways that hospices, schools, grief counselors, and parents can best support these populations as they cope with loss and grief.
Home Study Courses
Hospice Foundation of America has taken the award-winning HFA Living With Grief® teleconference series and created a collection of home study courses for professionals. Each program is approved for three (3) hours of continuing education. Read a list of all board approvals.
Courses contain a 2 ½ hour videotape of HFA's annual teleconference broadcast, a copy of HFA's Living With Grief companion textbook of articles, learning objectives, panel information and a participant evaluation. At only $50 per course (just about the cost of the video and book alone) this is an economical and convenient way to earn continuing education hours at home and add valuable resources to your professional library.
Living With Grief: Diversity and End-of-Life Care focuses on ways of understanding diversity and how cultural histories, traditions and beliefs can affect end-of-life-care, and also examines the most current theories and practices in this area.
Special Report:
Living With Grief: African Americans and End-of-Life Care examines African American attitudes about care at the end of life, offers explanations as to why hospice, historically, has not been a choice for many African Americans, looks at grief and the African American community, and suggests ways to reach out to African Americans who are making end-of-life decisions. Please note: one Continuing Education credit is available for social workers, nurses and counselors.
Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents focuses on the experience of grieving children and adolescents and the ways that hospices, schools, grief counselors, and parents can best support these populations as they cope with loss and grief.
Living With Grief: Before and After the Death offers the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after death.
Pain Management at the End of Life: Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Practice examines the gap between knowledge and application of effective pain control in the person with a terminal condition, including pharmaceutical, psycho-social, spiritual, and complementary aspects of pain management.
Living With Grief: Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life offers constructive advice to those who are facing the difficult circumstances that surround caring for someone who is dying.
Living With Grief: Alzheimer's Disease offers insight and advice to all who are involved in the care of patients with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias.
Living With Grief: Coping With Public Tragedy looks at factors that define a public tragedy and offers suggestions for those helping their communities deal with loss. .
Living With Grief: Loss in Later Life explores the range of losses found in later life and discusses ways that professionals can more effectively serve those coping with loss.
Caregiving and Loss: Family Needs, Professional Responses examines the ways that health care and other professionals can better understand and support family caregivers.
Living With Grief: At Work, At School, At Worship discusses how grief influences us in our day-to-day surroundings and offers interventions that workplaces, schools and faith communities can use in assisting those struggling with loss.
Living With Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve offers insight into the ways that culture, spirituality, age and gender affect the grieving process and how we experience loss.
Living With Grief: When Illness is Prolonged examines the specific relevance that a long-term illness can have on the grieving process, both before and after death.
Living With Grief: After Sudden Loss discusses the intense and complicated reactions surrounding sudden death and the losses associated with accidents, suicide, homicide, heart attack and stroke.
Participants must return the program evaluation form in order to received credit which will be issued by Hospice Foundation of America. HFA is recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors to provide continuing education for nationally certified counselors (Provider #5729). HFA adheres to all NBCC continuing education guidelines.
