Ethics and Working with Chronic Disease
Date(s) – 14 May 2012
Time – 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Where – Century College: Century East Campus, White Bear Lake, MN
Category – For Medical Professionals
This program is being offered in partnership with Century College’s Continuing Education Department Health and Helping Careers.
Instructor: Cheryl Como, LICSW, Vice President of Client Services, Lupus Foundation of Minnesota. To register, visit Century College’s Continuing Education website and search the class listings.
Description: As chronic disease rapidly spreads through American society, living with and managing chronic illness is paved with grief, fear, loss and triumph. Service providers find themselves facing ever-changing dilemmas and conflicts between the psychosocial impact on the client and family and on-going medical complications. Establishing communication paths and decision making techniques that empower clients will aid in an ethical working relationship grounded in shared purpose while reducing
the burn-out factor for the service provider.
Goals:
- Examine the ever increasing role and complication of chronic disease in the individual, family, community workplace and healthcare settings
- Identify the multiple psychosocial impacts that client and families may face after diagnosis
- Examine tools and techniques that promote shared and effective communication
- Offer problem solving techniques to use with and teach clients that are designed to adhere to NASW’s guidelines for ethical problem solving.
Registration required by May 13, 2011.
