Gain tools to help your patients, clients, parishioners, family or friends deal with grief. This webinar explores other techniques for meaning-making at the end of life including Dignity Enhancement Therapy, Meaning-Centered Therapy, Living Eulogies and other approaches that assist persons at the end-of-life in affirming a sense personal significance and meaning.

Agenda

Objectives

1. Discuss the importance of meaning-making and legacies at the end-of-life.
2. Describe the technique and rationale of each of the follow strategies – Dignity Enhancement Therapy, Meaning-Centered Therapy, Living Eulogies, Moral Wills, and other approaches to leaving legacies.
3. Describe the research the underlies Dignity Enhancement Therapy.
4. Discuss the role of leave-taking rituals at the end-of-life.
5. Discuss the practitioner’s role at the end-of-life noting areas where counter-transference can be problematic.

Outline

• Meaning-making at the end-of-Life
  • Role of meaning-making and legacy at the end-of-life
  • The spiritual needs of individuals who are dying
• Strategies for meaning-making
  • Dignity enhancement therapy
    • Approach
    • Research on dignity therapy
  • Meaning-centered therapy
  • Living eulogies
  • Moral wills
• The role of leave-taking rituals
  • Rituals at life’s end
  • Leave-taking rituals
• The practitioner’s role
  • Understanding counter-transference
  • Meeting client and family needs
  • The role of the funeral in the meaning-making process

Web Panelists

• Gary Fink, DMin, MAHL
• Larry Michael

Live Panelists

• Sasha Mudlaff, Vice President of Hamilton’s Funeral Home
• J. Jeffrey Means, MDiv, PhD; Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Behavioral Medicine, DMU

Sponsors

This activity is co-sponsored by Des Moines University and HCI Care Services, formerly called Hospice of Central Iowa.