Ligia M Houben – Death, Dying & Bereavement: New Strategies for Clients & Their Families to Find Meaning at the End of Life

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Ligia M Houben, Professor
2 hours 14 minutes in length
Audio and video formats are available.
14th of January, 2020
Description

Death is an unavoidable reality. Looking death in the eyes is one of the most terrifying and emotional struggles your clients will ever face. Are you prepared and capable of guiding your customers through their own or a loved one’s death?

Join Ligia M. Houben, MA, FT, FAAGC, CPC, CHT, as she explains how to best help your client and client’s family cope with death and loss. You’ll discover new approaches for processing and normalizing sorrow, as well as ideas for assisting your clients in creating meaningful rituals and making the most of their hospice care.

You’ll leave this recording with fresh insights into the needs of the dying, such as the emotional need to conduct unpleasant talks with family members who aren’t quite ready to accept that their loved one is dying. You’ll discover new techniques for dealing with death fear and how culture and faith influence your clients’ end-of-life experiences.

Purchase today to change the way you serve clients who are dealing with death, dying, or grieving.

Handouts

Death, Dying, and Bereavement Manual (1.1 MB)

Outline of 18 pages available after purchase

ATTITUDES TO DEATH AND DYING IN THE MODERN WORLD

Thanatophobia (fear of death) or death acceptance?
The new death consciousness movement
Clinicians’ perspectives on death and dying

THE DYING PATIENT AND HIS OR HER FAMILY SYSTEM

A terminal disease affects the entire family.
The path of death
End-of-life forgiveness, love, and emotional healing
What effect does belief in the hereafter have on death?
Preparatory grief and anticipatory grief

GETTING READY FOR THE END OF LIFE

Validate and assist in the processing of emotions
Assist in meeting spiritual requirements
Pain relief and relaxation
Advance care planning and legal paperwork

CURRENT ASSESSMENTS AND INTERVENTIONS

Examine your fear of dying.
Grief processing and normalization tools
Rituals that are meaningful to patients and their families
Suggestions for Cancer Patients
Faculty

MA, FT, FAAGC, CPC Ligia M Houben Related seminars and products: 4 My Meaningful Existence

Ligia M. Houben, MA, FT, FAAGC, CPC, is a Thanatology Fellow and an American Academy of Grief Counseling Fellow. Ligia is a worldwide grief therapist and author who has dedicated her life to assisting others in transforming their losses and lives. Houben is the author of Counseling Hispanics Through Loss, Grieving, and Bereavement: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals, a pioneer in dealing with Hispanic individuals with grief (Springer, 2011). Ligia has spoken at the Association for Death, Education, and Counseling (ADEC), the Baptist Health System, and the International Death, Grief, and Bereavement Conference at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse regarding the needs of Hispanic people in times of loss.

She helped to form the first grief support group in her home Nicaragua, PUDE – an acronym for Personas Unidas en el Dolor y la Esperanza (Individuals Joined by Pain and Hope), and she co-trained Hispanic people to be facilitators in church bereavement support groups for nine years.

Ligia M. Houben is a former adjunct professor of ethics, religion, and death and dying at Florida International University, Miami Dade College, and Kaplan University. In Miami, Florida, she founded My Meaningful Life, LLC and the Center for Transforming Lives. Ligia has spoken at enterprises, educational institutions, and health care organizations such as Baptist Health System Florida, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami Hospital, and Vitas Healthcare. She has been on various radio and television shows, including CNN Espaol, NPR, NBC, and Univisión.

Disclosures for Speakers:

Disclosures for Speakers: Ligia Houben is the Center for Transforming Lives’ Founder and Director. PESI, Inc. pays her a speaking honorarium.

Ligia Houben does not have any relevant non-financial relationships to declare.

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