Building Joyful Caregiver Experiences with Humility, Hope and Humor

This online educational program is intended for a multidisciplinary audience and focuses on providing tools for maintaining a joyful mindset in dementia care staff and family caregivers that will help them avoid being overwhelmed by their myriad of caregiving responsibilities. It is designed to help participants identify their personal values and joyful practices they can use to create daily or weekly caregiver success plans for those they care for. Loretta Woodward Veney, Author, Inspirational Speaker and Certified LEGO Serious Play Facilitator will present this 90-minute online presentation...Read more designed to reduce caregiver burden and stress through the integration of humility, hope and humor into their caregiver success plans. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • Define joy and its role in caregiving and identify the four parts of the virtuous cycle and the positive impact it can have on caregiving.
  • Identify their personal values and joyful practices they can integrate into their caregiver success plans.
  • Describe and discuss the ways humility can be a powerful tool in caregiving.
  • Review the definition of hope and list the three steps of the theory of renewing everyday hope that can help prevent stress and burnout.
  • Explain how humor can be effectively used in caregiving.

Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Administrators, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's.

Learning Levels

  • Targeting beginner and intermediate learning

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Live Interactive Webinar

01:00 PM EDT - 02:30 PM EDT

Register for this Webinar
EARN 1.5 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Loretta Woodward Veney

Loretta Woodward Veney

Loretta Woodward Veney is an inspirational speaker and educator who has delivered more than 325 speeches and presentations on dementia and caregiving since 2014, offering a wealth of information, encouragement and humor to her audiences. Loretta is the author of Being My Mom’s Mom, Refreshment for the Caregiver’s Spirit, and Colors Flowing from My Mind. Loretta and her Mom have been featured in articles in the Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, The Washington Post, The NY Times, AARP Caregiver Stories, as well as a PBS special. In 2019, Loretta was selected as Trailblazer of the Year by Johns Hopkins Medicine. Loretta and her Mom have been selected as one of Robin Roberts Thriver Thursdays profiles for 2021.

Agenda

1:00pm – 1:30pm

Explore how caregiver’s personal values can affect the quality of care they provide. 

Discuss the most effective personal values for caregiving

Explain the impact integrating joyful practices can have on both the caregiver and the care receiver. 

Define the purpose of a caregiver success plan and the types of information included in the plans.


1:30pm – 1:45pm

Define humility

Identify the reasons humility is one of the foundations of caregiving 

Explain the importance of utilizing humility across all cultures

Discuss personal values and examples of humility in caregiving.


1:45pm – 2:00pm

Define hope and its role in preventing caregiver burnout

Understand the difference between of Hope-agency (I can do this) and hope-pathway (how can I do this?)

Explain Duggleby’s theory of renewing everyday hope that describes hope as an interconnected knot which 


2:00pm – 2:15pm

List the positive and psychological effects of humor and laughter. 

Explain and discuss the appropriate and inappropriate use of humor with those with dementia


2:15pm – 2:30pm

Q&A

CE Information - Earn 1.5 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

American Psychological Association
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New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
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National Association of Long Term Care Administrators Board
This educational offering has also been reviewed by the National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB) and approved for 1.5 clock hours and 1.5 participant hours. Approval #20220914-1-A77033-IN
National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification
This continuing education session content is pre-approved by NCTRC.
NAB/NCERS
This program has been approved for Continuing Education for 1.5 total participant hours by NAB/NCERS—Approval #20250722-1.50-A104049-DL.

CE Process Info

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FACULTY
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