Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities through Illness, Grief and Loss
Claire Lavin, PhD and Kenneth J. Doka, PhD
Webinar Program
Continuing Education Available for Professionals!
A valuable educational offering for individuals or organizations, with CEs included--in an easy-to-access on-line format! One hour of continuing education is available for social workers, nurses and counselors. View the available boards.
This is an archived on-demand webinar (available through September 14, 2010.)Register Online Now or mail or fax your registration.
When the topic of diversity is considered, many think of ethnicity, gender, or religious affiliation. Yet there are other cultures or identities that may greatly influence how one copes with, and is supported through illness, death and grief. Dr. Claire Lavin will discuss the differences, and the similarities, in how persons with intellectual disabilities may respond to the illness and death of a loved one. And as societal and medical changes have occurred, persons with intellectual disabilities are living longer and therefore facing their own illness and dying. Dr. Lavin will share her experience about some of the challenges that all caregivers face, and the need for more education and partnership to better serve this population.
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Understand the definition of intellectual disabilities and examine some statistics about this population;
- Discuss some of the common misconceptions about this population with regards to grief and loss;
- Discuss strategies to use in helping persons with intellectual disabilities cope with grief and loss;
- Discuss how hospice professionals and disability caregivers can support persons with intellectual disabilities who are facing their own end-of-life situations; and
- Devise specific steps to take to ensure that adults with intellectual disabilities have their wishes expressed and respected at the end of life.
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Claire Lavin, PhD, is a professor of psychology at The College of New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York. A licensed clinical and school psychologist, she works with children and adults with disabilities in facilities and schools in the great New York City region.She has written articles and presented papers on older adults with disabilities. She co-authored a book with Kenneth Doka on Older Adults with Developmental Disabilities.
Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv, is Senior Consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America and Professor of Gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle. Dr. Doka is editor of both Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying and HFA’s Journeys: A Newsletter for the Bereaved. He has written or edited more than a dozen books on various aspects of grief and loss, and has published over 100 articles. Dr. Doka has served as a panelist on all sixteen of HFA’s Living With Grief National Bereavement Teleconferences. The Association for Death Education and Counseling presented him with an Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Death Education, and he is a member of the International Work Group on Dying, Death and Bereavement.
Technical Requirements:
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