Living With Grief: Before and After the Death

Donate to HFALiving 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 the death.

Sign up for this course. This program is approved for three (3) hours of continuing education.

Topics Covered Include:

SECTION I
THE DYING PROCESS: UNDERSTANDING ANTICIPATORY GRIEF AND ANTICIPATORYMOURNING

  1. Anticipatory Grief and Mourning: An Overview
    Charles A. Corr
    Voices: A Chunk of Crystal
    Elizabeth Uppman
  2. Life Review, Paradox, and Self-Esteem
    James J. Magee
  3. Supporting Families Through the Process of Death
    Carla Sofka
  4. The Role of the Funeral as Survivors Cope with Death
    Paul E. Irion

SECTION II
GRIEF: NEW INSIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

  1. Challenging the Paradigm: New Understandings of Grief
    Kenneth J. Doka
    Voices: Experiencing Grief for an Infant Son
    Dennis Ryan
  2. Grief as a Transformative Struggle
    Richard G. Tedeschi & Lawrence G. Calhoun
  3. Grief:What Have We Learned from Cross-Cultural Studies?
    Paul C. Rosenblatt
    Voices: Two Months Later
    Jane Yolen
  4. Complicated Grief: The Debate over a new DSM-V Diagnostic Category
    Colin Murray Parkes

SECTION III
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE

  1. The Bright Side of Grief Counseling: Deconstructing the New Pessimism
    Dale G. Larson and William T. Hoyt
  2. Helping Build on Your Experience with a Problem: Mutual Help
    Phyllis R. Silverman
  3. Making Sense of Loss
    Robert A. Neimeyer
  4. Working with Children and Adolescents
    David E. Balk
    Voices: Reflections
    Whitehead
  5. Inner Reality and Social Reality: Bonds With Dead Children and the Resolution of Grief
    Dennis Klass
  6. The Death of A Parent of an Adult Child
    Miriam S. Moss & Sidney Z. Moss
  7. Grief Counseling with Families: Meaning Making in the Family During the Dying Process
    Kathleen R. Gilbert
  8. Countering Empathic Failure: Supporting Disenfranchised Grievers
    Dana G. Cable and Terry L. Martin

PART IV: THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-CARE

  1. Lessons Before Dying
    Joyce D. Davidson
  2. Caring for the Professional Caregivers: Before and After the Death
    Mary L. S. Vachon
  3. Selected Resources
    Lisa McGahey Veglahn

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.