Living With Grief: Diversity and End-of-Life Care
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.
View the Learning Objectives.
Sign up for the home study version of this course ($100, book and DVD included). See board approvals here. This program is approved for three (3) hours of continuing education.
Topics Covered Include:
Section I: Understanding and Responding to Cultural Diversity
1. Cultural Influences on Death, Dying, and Bereavement: An Overview – Bert Hayslip, Jr. and GiBaeg Han
2. The Culturally Competent Practitioner – Paul C. Rosenblatt
Characteristics of Culturally Effective Counselors - Kenneth J. Doka
3. Ethical Aspects of Cultural Diversity – Bruce Jennings
4. Diversity and Access to Hospice Care – Richard B. Fife
Training for Diversity – Richard B. Fife
5. Cultural Diversity: Implications for Funeral Rituals – Stephen M. Mack and Sumner J. Waring, III
Section II: Ethnicity and Race as Sources of Diversity
6. Sociocultural Considerations: African Americans, Grief, and Loss – Ronald Barrett
7. The New Black Migration: Dying and Grief in African and Caribbean Migrants – Penelope J. Moore
8. Death, Dying and End-of-Life in American-Indian Communities – Gerry R. Cox
9. Hispanic Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Care – Carlos Sandoval-Cros
Section III: Diverse Spiritualities
10. Jewish Perspectives on Loss, Grief, and End-of-Life Care – Maurice Lamm
Orthodox and Hasidic Perspectives – Barry M. Kinzbrunner
11. Dying and Grief in the Islamic Community – Hasan Shanawani and Syed Zafar
12. Buddhist Perspectives on Death, Grief, and Loss - Eve Mullen
13. Christian Evangelicals: The Challenge for Hospice and Palliative Care – Kenneth J. Doka
Section IV: Other Sources of Diversity
14. Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Facing Dying and Loss – Claire Lavin
15. Death and Loss in Deaf Culture – Frank R. Zieziula
16. Assessment and Management of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Palliative Care Patients – Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil
Men, Women, and Loss: Changing Perspectives on Gender and Grief - Kenneth J. Doka
17. Aspects of Death , Grief, and Loss in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities – Brian de Vries
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Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this teleconference, participants will be able to:
1. Define diversity and discuss sources of diversity such as ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, religion, and disability;
2. Describe the ways that cultural diversity both can complicate and facilitate end-of-life experiences including grief and adaptation to loss;
3. Discuss the knowledge, sensitivities, and skills necessary to work with culturally-diverse populations in end-of-life care;
4. Assess the challenges hospice and palliative care present for culturally diverse groups including African-Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Islamic-Americans;
5. Describe effective strategies and programs to work with end-of-life issues with culturally diverse populations including African-Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Islamic-Americans.
