Learning Outcomes

Introduction to End-of-Life and Palliative Care

Types of Illnesses and Palliative Care

Holistic Assessment and Advanced Care Planning

Lesson Summary

This module offers a clear understanding of end-of-life and palliative care with the best approaches to improve the quality of end life. Learn about various physical and mental illnesses and the role of palliative care. Learn the key components of holistic assessments and the process of advanced end-of-life or palliative care planning.

Legal Issues

Care after Death

Support, Training and Development

With this module, learn to improve the quality of care provided to the patient. You will also learn about the procedures related to death and the dead body. Understand how to provide compassionate support to the bereaved families and then be exposed to the different legal acts and rights of the patient and the family-related end-of-life care.

End-of-Life and Palliative Care - Course Assessment

This free online caregiving course explains how to provide palliative and end-of-life support to patients and families.

End-of-Life and Palliative Care

Caring for the terminally ill and the elderly is an emotional, complex, challenging and rewarding profession. The job requires trained, compassionate caregivers to handle the situation with grace and sensitivity. This caregiving course explains how to supply quality care to those who are suffering in the grip of illness or are approaching the end of their lives. We also show you how to provide support and comfort to worried and grieving families.

Gestalt Therapy

Principles of Gestalt Therapy

What Are the 5 Stages of Palliative Care?

Module 1 elucidates Gestalt Therapy principles and the specific techniques Gestalt therapists use in therapeutic practice. A comprehension of what is Gestalt Therapy will help the learners develop additional skills after academic and/or practical training in palliative care.

Common Gestalt Techniques

Specific Coping Techniques

Specific Experimental Techniques

Gestalt therapists employ a variety of techniques to guide their clients toward self-awareness and personal growth. Common techniques include listening for cues and asking thoughtful questions to encourage awareness between conflicting aspects of the self and to promote mindfulness of bodily sensations and emotions.

Case Study 1

Case Study 2

Case Study 3

Case Study 4

Case Study 5

This module will provide a hands-on approach by taking an in-depth look into case studies that use Gestalt psychology practices. We will further apply Gestalt therapy and explore how it can benefit individual cases with different mental and medical conditions.

Gestalt Therapy for Palliative Care - Course Assessment

This free online psychotherapy course explains how gestalt therapy improves the mental health of seriously ill patients.

Gestalt Therapy for Palliative Care

In the 1940s, Friedrich and Laura Perls developed the famous Gestalt Therapy within the school of Gestalt Psychology, which was developed in 1912 by Max Wertheimer. It draws inspiration from existential theorists such as Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. This psychotherapy course lays out the practice-based approach of gestalt therapy that appreciates individuals as more than the sum of their parts.

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