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

Project Overview

Status
Active
Categories
Education
Caregiving
Duration
Ongoing Project

Funding

Primary Funder
Ohio Department of Medicaid
Additional Funders
The Ohio Long-Term Care Research Project

The Emotion-Focused Communication Training Course

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 into six lessons (each 10-30 minutes), which can be completed at your own pace. The course does not need to be completed in one sitting.

Lesson 1: Introduction to the course and course pre-assessment

Objectives: To learn how to navigate the course and to assess what you know prior to completing the training

Lesson 2: Taking care of your feelings first – Processing your emotions

Objectives: To learn what Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is, learn how to increase your Emotional Intelligence (EQ), learn how to identify your own feelings in response to an event, and learn how to identify a feeling a person is displaying based on body posture

Lesson 3: Taking care of your feelings first – Managing your emotions

Objectives: To learn how to replace a negative feeling with a positive feeling (manage your emotions)

Lesson 4: Taking care of recipients’ feelings – Processing their emotions

Objectives: To increase skills in recognizing emotions in others and increase skills in handling emotions in others through active listening

Lesson 5: Taking care of recipients’ feelings – Managing their emotions

Objectives: To learn how to use positive communication to handle emotions in others

Lesson 6: Conclusion to the course and course post-assessment

Objectives: To assess what you have learned upon completing the training

Funder

Thanks to funding from the Ohio Department of Medicaid, this course was converted from an in-person workshop to an online training program. The Ohio Long-Term Care Research Project supports this revision.

Project Personnel

Katy Abbott, Ph.D.
Professor, Sociology & Gerontology
Executive Director, Scripps Gerontology Center
Miami University
About Katy
Allison Heid
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