This recording is designed to teach you strategies to facilitate discussions with dying individuals and families struggling with end-of-life care. Jackson Rainer, Ph.D., ABPP, author of Life After Loss: Contemporary Grief Counseling and Therapy, specializes in working with individuals, couples, and families struggling with the demands of chronic and terminal illness, end-of-life and palliative care, and issues related to grief and bereavement. Dr. Rainer will help you to be able to recognize the distinction between healing and cure and examine the nature of heroic treatment and futility. He will also cover complicated ethical challenges at the end of life and techniques for communicating empathy and compassion.