Compassion Fatigue Solutions

International Telehealth Palliative Care Symposium - April 27-29th, 2010

Topics include:

-So Many Patients Die After We Get Close to Them: How do we heal ourselves?
-Best Practices for Palliative Pain and Symptom Management: How can I confidently change from dosing for cure to dosing for palliative care? What can I do when access to high-level care is limited?
-Who Cares? What People Near the End of Life Say About Caring
-Maintaining Hope and Trust: How can I be honest with a patient about their prognosis?
-Managing Delirium for a Peaceful End of Life Journey
-Traditional Healing among the Inupiaq: Importance of Caring for the Body, Mind, Spirit

To register or for more information phone: (907) 729-1900 or email: palliativesymposium@anthc.org

Leading Edge Seminars: Gabor Maté, Janina Fisher and John Ortiz in a small classroom environment... but not all at once!

The Master Class Series is a way for prominent speakers to further share their research, work and insights with you at a level of complexity that is usually not possible with larger audiences. This is a rare opportunity for more one-on-one exchanges and learning with experts and your peers. Learn in an intimate and collaborative group setting:

Smaller group (maximum 35-40 participants)

Customized seminar content based on questions and case studies submitted in advance by YOU. More time for questions and detailed follow up on issues arising from discussion. Bring your toughest cases and questions to the class.

Upon registration, Master Class participants are invited to submit case studies and questions (articles, notes, video clips and audio files are all welcome) at least two weeks before the date of the class for the speaker's consideration. Cases will be chosen by each Master Class instructor.

New Study looking at Compassion Fatigue in Public Defenders

"The Wisconsin State Public Defender is participating in a study of compassion fatigue on lawyers and support staff. The State Bar of Wisconsin Lawyers Assistance Program (WisLAP) will use the results to develop training materials and techniques to benefit lawyers and law office staff across practice areas and environments. The results of this initiative will be shared with legal professionals in Wisconsin and across the nation. [...]

The study is being conducted by Dr. Andrew Levin, medical director of the Westchester Jewish Community Services, Westchester, N.Y., and Linda Albert, State Bar of Wisconsin WisLAP coordinator. Quoted from Karle Lester of State Bar of Wisconsin