Get Your Certificate of Thanatology Online !

End-of-Life issues impact the practice of all healthcare professionals, counselors, clergy, hospice staff, social workers and many others. In order to provide appropriate, compassionate care, one must have a sound understanding of all aspects of grief – from anticipatory grief to post death grief.  Special Topics in Thanatology: Dying, Death and Bereavement is a three part distance learning program incorporating both video (DVD-ROM) and on-line instructions components provided on a password protected website. The program divisions are:

• The Grief Primer
• Issues and Interventions Related to Complicated and Disenfranchised Grief
• Capstone Experience

New registration and fee info will be posted here on March 1,2012.

Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress at End of Life

Veterans have special needs at end of life.  They can be susceptible to post traumatic stress even if they have not experienced it earlier in life.  To learn more about the unique needs of veterans, view our online video series “Addressing the Special Needs of Veterans at End of Life”.