Who should attend this webinar?

Anyone who works in a professional care role or supports people through all forms of loss and grief. Our content is applicable to a wide variety of professions including counsellors, social workers, teachers, emergency response teams, medical, corrections, mental health, hospice, volunteers, caregivers and more. 

Overview

Assisted dying is the latest addition to NZ health services with implications for service users, their families, and health professionals.

The grief and bereavement experience of family and friends who have lost a loved one with assisted death is poorly understood worldwide. With some community members and the societal environment expressing strong views about assisted death, some families may hesitate to disclose the manner of death, thus complicating the grief and bereavement outcomes. The need for secrecy and fear of societal stigma and judgement attached to assisted dying may also impact the quantity and quality of social and professional support needed.

This webinar will explore assisted dying and the patients’ and families' unique journey of dying using such service and its impact on the dying and bereavement experience.  

Key learning outcomes

• Background information on assisted dying service, including eligibility criteria, safeguards, process, care pathway, and some uptake statistics so far.
• Fundamental arguments and views for and against AD with an impact on AD acceptance among people and service users’ experience.
• Experience of AD among families, including the impact of certainty of date/time of death, active family engagement as planners, navigating policy requirements and challenges, interacting with clinicians, etc.
•  Differences between grief reactions to AD compared to natural or other deaths and its contributing factors, such as relationships between family/friends and the patient, the age of the person seeking AD, and the patient’s suffering.
• Availability of bereavement support.

Webinar registration details

• Access to the live two-hour webinar
• Access to the webinar recording 
• Access to a downloadable PDF handout
• Certificate of accomplishment issued on completion of a short quiz
• Access to CPD points

Certificate of accomplishment

We can provide a certificate of accomplishment for all our training courses. The requirement for receiving a certificate to confirm professional development is as follows:

• You must view a minimum of 80% of a live-presented webinar workshop or
• You must view a minimum of 80% of a recorded webinar workshop
• You must complete a short quiz on the webinar content

CPD points/credits

We are accredited to provide points/credits to the following organisations, educational institutes, and associations:

New Zealand
FDANZ
NZEA
NZFIH

Australia
AROH

Our training is endorsed or recommended by the following organisations, educational institutes, and associations:

New Zealand

NZAC
CANZ

DAPAANZ
NZSDRT
The CPD Group

Australia
ACWA
ACA (Australian Counselling Association)

To receive your CPD points/credits, you will need to receive a certificate of accomplishment which you can then provide to your relevant institution.less