Self Care Online Webinar Archive

Did you miss a live webinar? No problem! You can view a video recording of most of our previous webinars for free, anytime. To watch any of the webinar recordings, just click on the video below that you would like to view. Please note that you can NOT earn continuing education (CE) credit for viewing a webinar recording. For best viewing results, use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browsers.

Caring for Yourself While Helping Others

Caring for yourself is vital when helping others, yet the physical and emotional demands of professional and personal caregiving can make it seem impossible. Learn how to recognize and teach the symptoms associated with different forms of stress, fatigue, and burnout – and the resulting damage it can cause. Various strategies are provided for you to learn and teach others to reduce the negative impacts of caregiver stress and how to develop positive approaches to caring for oneself, including the development of a personalized self-care plan.

Anticipatory Grief

Learn about past and current models of grief, actions for coping with grief, the concepts of ‘anticipatory grief’, and core processes in managing grief. An overview of how beliefs and practices impact the process of grieving and a model of the bereavement process is presented for assisting individuals who are coping with anticipatory grief.

Caring for Yourself While Helping Others

Caring for yourself is vital when helping others, yet the physical and emotional demands of caregiving can make it seem impossible. Learn how to recognize the symptoms associated with different forms of stress, fatigue, and burnout – and the resulting damage it can cause. Various strategies are provided for how to reduce the negative impacts of caregiver stress and how to develop positive approaches to caring for one-self, including the development of a personalized self-care plan.

Grief in a Pandemic: Practical Tips for Caring for the Bereaved

Grief and loss, which are known to be difficult, are especially hard during times of uncertainty, anxiety, and isolation. In this presentation we will look at the nature of grief and its different types, and what to expect in the grieving process. Techniques are presented for coping strategies, receiving care from self and others, and how to focus on the positive consequences of negative events.

Managing Grief and Loss During the Holidays

Few periods are as difficult for those who are grieving than during the holidays. In this course participants will learn about the causes of grief and loss, the physical, emotional and cognitive symptoms of grief, spiritual aspects of grief and the behaviors that are associated with grief. Methods for coping with grief during the holidays are provided, with an emphasis on survival and growth.

Resiliency & Coping Strategies

Develop a repertoire of skills for resiliency, self-care and coping when caring for someone with dementia. Learn how dementia caregiver stress can impact health and lead to depression and anxiety. Strategies will be introduced for building resiliency which helps preserve and restore emotional and physical health while navigating the uncertainty of dementia caregiving.

The Cultural Diversity of Grief and Loss

As our world grows smaller, we are more frequently confronted with death and bereavement beliefs and customs that are different than our own. This webinar won’t just present a list of cultural stereotype characteristics (“Latinos do this, African Americans do that, and Muslims do this over here”). Instead, attendees will develop cultural competence by encountering a diversity of beliefs from key people groups and learn skills for assessing and intervening more effectively with families from groups unlike their own.