Continuing Education Units on Care of the Unresponsive Person
Continuing Education Courses – CEUs
Caregiver Help's video-based online continuing education courses incorporate humor and real-life caregiving stories into difficult topics such as caregiver anger, guilt, depression and grief. Professional caregivers can earn continuing education credits while watching entertaining and engaging videos on their computers or mobile devices.
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists, the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB); the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA);and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Caregiver Help: Anger and Guilt
CE Credit: 2 Hours
Approved for:
Psychology | Counseling | Social Work | Occupational Therapy | Marriage & Family Therapy | Nutrition & Dietetics
Learning Level: Introductory
Course Link:
https://www.pdresources.org/course/index/1/1201/Caregiver-Help-Anger-and-Guilt
Course Description:
The emotional stress of caring for persons who are aging, chronically ill or disabled can be debilitating for family members as well as professional caregivers. This course addresses the anger and guilt experienced by both types of caregivers and provides a three-step process that helps people develop an attitude of "creative indifference" toward the people, situations and events that cause them the greatest amount of emotional stress.
By gaining insights into how degenerative and progressive diseases affect the life of the family caregiver, the mental health professional will be in a better position to empathize and provide strategies for helping them manage the stress of caring for someone whose situation will never improve. The significance of honoring and supporting caregivers' feelings and helping them understand the importance of self-care can not only improve their physical and emotional well-being, but can also have a huge impact on the quality of care they are able to provide to their care receiver. The course includes downloadable worksheets that professionals can use in their clinical practices.
Caregiver Help: Depression & Grief
CE Credit: 2 Hours
Approved for:
Psychology | Counseling | Social Work | Occupational Therapy | Marriage & Family Therapy | Nutrition & Dietetics
Learning Level: Introductory
Course Link: https://www.pdresources.org/course/index/1/1218/Caregiver-Help-Depression-and-Grief
Course Description:
This course addresses caregiver depression and grief as well as the process of preparatory grief, which is an experience shared by families and professionals as they have to adapt and adjust to the ongoing losses and changes that occur when a person is suffering with a long-term progressive and degenerative disease. The course also explores the differences between reactionary depression and clinical depression and treatments for both. By gaining insights into the process of losing someone over an extended period of time, the mental health professional will be in a better position to understand the caregiver's experience with depression and grief and provide both empathy and strategies for implementing a self-care plan. This course includes downloadable worksheets that can be used in the professional's clinical practice.
Caregiver Help: Sex and Dementia
CE Credit: 1 Hour
Approved for: Psychology | Counseling | Social Work | Occupational Therapy | Marriage & Family Therapy
Learning Level: Introductory
Course Link: https://www.pdresources.org/course/index/1/1228/Caregiver-Help-Sex-and-Dementia
Course Description:
This course explores how Alzheimer's and other dementia-related diseases impact the brain in ways that can cause some surprising, challenging and inappropriate behaviors. Some people with dementia may:
- Develop a heightened interest in sex
- Become addicted to pornography
- Lose the ability to understand what kind of behavior is acceptable
- Have a different perception of place and time and a different interpretation of reality from their caregivers
- Get agitated and upset when their caregivers don't communicate with them effectively
- Behave in ways that are confusing and upsetting to family members and professional healthcare workers
It is important to recognize that surprising, uninhibited and inappropriate sexual behavior is not uncommon among stroke survivors, people who have Alzheimer's and individuals who take Dopamine to control the symptoms of Parkinson's. This course provides insights into the impact those diseases can have on the brain along with strategies for coping with other dementia-related challenging behaviors.
Washington State DSHS Training Program
The following is a live training course offered for long-term workers in the State of Washington
Caregiver Survival Training
Credit Hours: 4
Training Program Number: 0616
Call Elaine to book: 503-949-2464
Course Description:
Caregiver Survival Training is an interactive workshop, in which Elaine K Sanchez helps long-term care workers understand the similarities and differences between the emotional stress experienced by family caregiver and professional caregivers.
Attendees learn a three-step process to developing an attitude of "Creative Indifference" toward caregiver anger, guilt, depression and grief. They come away with strategies that help them manage the difficult emotions associated with caring for individuals who are aging, disabled or suffering with progressive and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other dementia-related diseases.
Participants learn how to recognize and cope with compassion fatigue, how to deal with dementia-related challenging behaviors, including inappropriate sexual behavior, and they come away with a renewed awareness of the importance of caring for themselves while caring for others.
Elaine's ability to incorporate humor and story-telling into difficult topics and illustrate coping strategies with engaging slides, make this program entertaining, as well as informative and educational.
To book Elaine for your next caregiver training event, call 503-949-2464 or email her at elaine@EKSanchez.com.
Virtual Keynotes
Seven Strategies
Seven Strategies for Caregiver Survival
Hope Humor & Heart
Finding Hope and Humor in Caregiving
CaregiverHelp Support Group Topics
Anger
Taming Your Anger Monster
Guilt
Giving Caregiver Guilt the Boot
Depression
Dealing with Caregiver Depression
Dementia Issue
Dad Did What?! Sex, Violence & Dementia Issues
Self-Care
Caregiver Survival Training – A Course in Self-Care
Financial
Ducks in a Row
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