Anticipatory Grief: Helping Patients and Families Understand and Cope
Member Exclusive | Hospice Foundation of America Webinar
Hospice Foundation of America webinar
Event Details
Overview: Learn more about what anticipatory grief is and isn’t, and the research that has led to this important concept. Presenters Dr. Kenneth J. Doka and Dr. Laura Bradbury will discuss how anticipatory grief is often seen in “real-life” scenarios with patients, families, and end-of-life care professionals and share effective clinical interventions to support this specific type of grief.
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.
Target Audience: Hospice
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Kenneth Doka is Senior Vice President of Grief Programs at Hospice Foundation of America (HFA) and the recipient of the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). He is professor emeritus, the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle. A prolific author and editor, Doka serves as editor of HFA’s Living with Grief® book series, its Journeys newsletter, and numerous other books and publications. He has been a panelist on HFA’s Living with Grief® program for 30 years. Doka is a past president of ADEC, a former board member of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement, and an Advisory Board member to the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS). He is the recipient of The International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement’s prestigious Herman Feifel Award and ADEC’s Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Death Education. In 2006, he was grandfathered in as a Mental Health Counselor under New York’s first state licensure of counselors. Doka is an ordained Lutheran minister.
Laura Bradbury is a grief counselor and assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah. She is the director of Caring Connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program at the University of Utah. She researches issues related to end of life care and grief and loss, suicide grief care, and suicide prevention. Laura is passionate about improving outcomes for bereaved persons and increasing grief literacy among helping professionals.