Hospice Foundation of America
E-Newsletter
Volume 8, Issue 5
May 2008
http://www.hospicefoundation.org
May 2008
In this issue:
- Focus on: Follow-Up Questions from Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents
- What's New @ HFA
- What's New @ HFA's Hospice and Caregiving Blog
- Upcoming Conferences and Educational Opportunities
Message from David Abrams, President
Thank you to everyone who participated in our 15th annual National Bereavement Teleconference, "Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents." We are pleased that the teleconference continues to reach such a large audience across the country, and wanted to share two comments that reflect the importance of this program.
. . . I valued the insights of the children, and the clinical directors of the summer
camp and the various grief centers. For that reason, this was the best teleconference
I can remember of the 14 I have attended.
This was my first experience as a site coordinator and our agency's first experience
with being a webcast site. I was so pleased with the ease of putting this together
because of the support materials HFA provided and the ease of communicating with
your staff. It was a wonderful networking experience for us as we had representatives
from our school district and other community agencies and individuals that offer
counseling and support services for children.
Our 2009 teleconference will focus on ways of understanding the impact of cultural diversity at the end of life; please watch upcoming issues of this e-newsletter for more information.
Focus on: Follow-Up Questions from Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents
HFA's teleconference features some of the best-known experts in the field of grief and loss. While the goal of the program is to share new insights and tangible ideas that can be put to use to help grieving children and adolescents, HFA strives to hear from professionals who are working with children every day. Prior to the broadcast, HFA solicited questions from Site Coordinators. Many of these questions were worked into the program, but as a follow-up we have included a few more here with answers from Dr. Kenneth J. Doka.
HFA's new book, Living with Grief: Children and Adolescents, is now available for purchase. The book is written by experts and examines child and adolescent grief in a variety of situations. Parental loss, sibling loss, and loss of a friend are each addressed in their own chapters. Other chapters examine play therapy, protocols for schools, use of the Internet as a coping tool, and the recommendations for reading for children and adolescents. Contributors include Kenneth Doka (editor), Charles Corr, Nancy Hogan, Bruce Jennings, Donna Schuurman and J. William Worden. See a full Table of Contents here. The book is available for purchase online for $34.95.
HFA's recent National Bereavement Teleconference, Living With Grief: Children and
Adolescents, will be available on DVD after June 1. These DVDs make excellent training
tools as well as a resource for community organizations interested in helping children
cope with grief and loss. The full-length program costs $25 and can be ordered
here.
HFA has two new special issues of
Journeys,
a newsletter to help in bereavement. The first new special issue, "Introduction
to Hospice," addresses choosing hospice, the challenges of facing loss, opportunities
for reminiscence, and self-care for caregivers. Another special issue, "Spring Holidays,"
focuses on grief surrounding holidays such as Mother's Day, Easter and Passover,
Father's Day and graduation.
HFA is now making individual book chapters available for online purchase .
The chapters are available in PDFs for a low cost of $2.50 each and may be downloaded
to your home or office computer. We have put chapters from the last three books
online: Living with Grief: Before and After the Death (2007); Living with Grief:
Pain Management at the End of Life (2006), and Living with Grief: Ethical Dilemmas
at the End of Life (2005). You can read descriptions of each chapter before purchasing.
What's New @ HFA's Hospice and Caregiving Blog
HFA's Hospice and Caregiving Blog gathers and disseminates information useful to professionals and consumers from a single destination. Our goals are to inform, offer support, and generate online comments about important end-of life issues. Read some of the blog's most recent postings:
- Living a Good Life
- A Gentle Death: Five Months with Hospice
- Saying Thank You to All the Volunteers
- Aging in Place in York County Pennsylvania
Upcoming Conferences and Educational Opportunities
The sixth edition of Death & Dying, Life & Living (Charles A. Corr, Clyde
M. Nabe, and Donna M. Corr, Editors) is now in print. Hospice Foundation of America
is honored that this edition is dedicated to Dame Cicely M. Saunders, Dr. John
D. (Jack) Morgan, and HFA Founder Senator Jack D. Gordon. The book is available
here.
The American Psychological Association, in partnership with eNURSING llc, is recruiting participants for a multi-media, interactive, internet-based continuing education program for health care professionals who work with clients who are near the end of life. Participation in the study offers 20 hours of APA-approved CE credit at no charge. If you are interested in being part of this learning experience, please contact recruit@enursingllc.com.
May is Mental Health Month. This year's theme is "Get Connected," focusing on the
importance of social connectedness.
This newsletter is sent to more than 7,600 subscribers every month to keep you informed of what is happening in the fields of hospice, grief and bereavement, and caregiving, as well as what's new at HFA. Privacy Statement: In no case will we share e-mail addresses. See the full text of HFA's Privacy Policy.
This newsletter is published by Hospice Foundation of America
David Abrams, President; Amy Tucci, CEO
http://www.hospicefoundation.org
Board of Directors: Thomas Spulak, Chair; David Abrams; Thomas E. Bryant, MD, JD;
Myra MacPherson; Priscilla Perry, Vice Chair; Patricia Spulak
© Hospice Foundation of America 2008
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