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Emotions play a significant role in care. When caregivers can accurately interpret emotions and express them, care is more effective.

This Emotion-Focused Communication Training Course is designed to increase your awareness of your own emotions and help you identify emotions in others. Strategies are then provided for managing those emotions—yours and your care recipients’.

Who should complete this course?

While the course is relevant to any person who is a caregiver, it specifically focuses on the context of providing care to an individual with dementia.

Course Outline and Objectives

This course is about 2 hours long.  It is broken out into 6 lessons (each 10-30 minutes) which can be completed at your own pace.  The course does not need to be completed in one sitting.

Project Personnel

Katy Abbott, Ph.D.
Professor, Sociology & Gerontology
Executive Director, Scripps Gerontology Center
Miami University
About Katy
Kimberly Van Haitsma, Ph.D.
Professor, Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing
Director of the Program for Person Centered Living Systems of Care, part of the Tresse Nese and Helen Diskevich Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
The Pennsylvania State University
About Kimberly
Allison Heid
Independent Research Consultant
About Allison