Making decisions with and for a client at or near the end of life is seldom easy. Medical decisions, emotions, spiritual, issues, family dynamics, finances, and legal issues often intersect and conflict. Decision makers need to rely on ethics and good communication skills to resolve the conflicting interests of participants engaged in a process that is at once intensely private and yet sometimes controversial.
This applied ethics seminar provides insight and answers on how to resolve these tensions and conflicts. Actual cases in various settings will enhance the understanding of the difficult ethical issues faced by the treatment team, family, and client. There will be discussion of the practical, emotional, spiritual, financial, ethical dilemmas posed by these situations. Participants will be guided through the process by Hanno Kirk, PhD, LICSW, a licensed independent clinical social worker. He brings first hand knowledge and experience from his 30 years of practicing and educating in the realm of ethics and client care.
Learning Objectives:
Explain the ethical dilemmas and tensions between institutional responses, medical techniques for life extension and autonomy and self determination
Practice mediation and counseling skills to resolve tensions between various family members, or family members and the client regarding Advance Directives, palliative care, and end of life decisions
Model sensitivity and discretion in balancing the wishes of a dying client or the family, with medical, ethical, and legal considerations
Display a respectful stance toward the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the terminally ill
Describe how personal and cultural attitudes and family dynamics affect decision making in end of life situations
Model appropriate responses to grief and mourning within the care team
Create and/or support local networking groups for care team grief and stress reactions
Distinguish the legal and ethical differences between Death with Dignity, Right to Die, Assisted Suicide, and Active and Passive Euthanasia
Continuing
Education Credit Information:
Counselors: CMI
Education Institute, Inc, is an approved provider of the National Board of Certified
Counselors, NBCC Provider #: 5637. We adhere to NBCC Continuing Education
Guidelines. This course qualifies for 4.5 contact hours.
Social Workers: CMI
Education Institute, Inc. (Provider # 1062) is approved by the Association of
Social Work Boards (ASWB), through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE)
program: www.aswb.org, phone: 1-800-225-6880.
CMI Institute maintains
responsibility for the program. Social Workers participating in this course
will receive 4.5 contact hours. Social Workers should contact their state board
to verify recognition of ACE approval.
Psychologists:CMI
Education Institute, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association
to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CMI
maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CMI
is offering this activity for 4.5 hours of continuing education credit. Full
attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial
attendance.
Addiction Counselors: CMI
Education Institute is an approved provider of continuing education by the
National Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC),
provider #: 00131. This course qualifies for 1.5 contact hours. Full attendance
is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. This
course qualifies for 4.5 contact hours.
Nurses:CMI
Education Institute, Inc, is an approved provider of continuing nursing
education by the Arizona Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the AmericanNursesCredentialingCenter’s
Commission on Accreditation.
This course qualifies for 4.7 contact hours
through the Arizona Nurses Association. Full attendance is required; no partial
credits will be awarded for partial attendance.
Credit Information
4.5 Total CE Credits, all of which may be applied toward Ethics, 4.5 of which may be applied toward Social Workers, 4.7 of which may be applied toward Nurses/Nurse Practitioners/Clinical Nurse Specialists, 4.5 of which may be applied toward Psychologists, 5.5 of which may be applied toward Addiction Counselors, 4.5 of which may be applied toward Counselors, 4.5 of which may be applied toward Therapists
"I am very happy to have discovered this course. The material has had a profound impact on me personally, and will undoubtedly help me be wiser and more helpful to others on these issue which all of us will encounter. Thank you!" (Montclair, VA)
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