What Every LMFT Needs to Know About Palliative Care

The What Every Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Needs to Know About Palliative Care course provides LMFT workers with guidance, tools, and techniques on how to initiate a discussion about palliative care, initiate advance care planning discussions, identify patient goals, and facilitate difficult conversations with patients and family members. It also provides information on ways to integrate palliative care elements into generalist LMFT practices.

Upon completing this course, learners will be able to:

• Differentiate among “usual” care, palliative care, and hospice care.
• Identify the role of each member of the palliative care team and the benefits of care by an interdisciplinary team.
• Describe unique elements of the palliative care delivery process.
• Recognize the value of palliative care in specific care settings.
• Conduct an advance care planning conversation.
• Assess and identify patients who would benefit from palliative care.
• Describe opportunities to integrate palliative care elements into generalist LMFT practices.

1 continuing education (CE) credit provided through California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) Extended Learning, accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), and approved by the Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE-3405.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, and counselors working in hospice, palliative care, home, aging services, or any other care practice setting and wanting to learn more about palliative care.

To complete this course and obtain a certificate, you must view the course in its entirety, correctly answer all case studies and quiz/test questions (as appropriate) and complete the evaluation. No refunds are given for self-paced courses. You will have 90 days to access this course from the date of purchase.