Most cancersCare Social Staff Current at Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Community Assembly
Richard Dickens, MS, LCSW-RMost cancersCare’s skilled oncology social staff showcased their experience on the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Community (SWHPN) Basic Meeting, February 19-21 in Scottsdale, AZ. SWHPN is a nationwide community of psychosocial care professionals actively devoted to offering the most effective and newest info, skilled sources, coverage updates, and new and rising schooling and analysis greatest practices in palliative and hospice care.
Most cancersCare Director of Consumer Advocacy Richard Dickens, MS, LCSW-R, mentioned tips on how to use one’s life experiences appropriately in palliative care and finish of life to assist create a safe therapeutic place for sufferers and caregivers. As Dickens explains, “By way of the social staff’ wounds, they will step out of oneself and into roles that grant a extra inclusive id with the opposite, permitting for a transformative expertise; a shared sense of the common nature of struggling. In our struggling, our hearts are damaged open to the struggling of others, thereby opening the door to compassion and in the end the potential for discovering which means.”
Elizabeth Ezra, LCSW, OSW-CPancreatic Most cancers Program Coordinator Elizabeth Ezra, LCSW, OSW-C and Oncology Social Employee David Horne, LMSW collaborated to current on the subject of “Honoring Loss as a Group.” Their presentation explores the facility of ritualized observance of grief and mourning exemplified throughout Most cancersCare’s “Keep in mind and Renew” occasion held at our nationwide NYC headquarters final Could, throughout which individuals who have misplaced a liked one to most cancers got here collectively for a night of honoring the reminiscence of their liked one.
Kids’s Program Coordinator Ahuva Morris, LCSW and Oncology Social Employee Sarah Paul, LMSW introduced on the subject, “Considering Exterior the Field: Creating Therapeutic Interventions to Assist Households With Younger Kids at Finish of Life and After Loss.” The presentation addresses how artistic shops and interactive packages for kids and youths (resembling the various Most cancersCare for Youngsters packages provided all year long) can present a secure atmosphere for kids, teenagers and adults to be taught efficient coping abilities to handle the challenges introduced on by a most cancers prognosis within the household.
Most cancersCare is proud to attend this vital annual assembly that addresses this essential element of affected person care. View Most cancersCare’s free sources on hospice care and palliative care.