This event is co-sponsored by:

Wednesday, September 15, 2010
1:30-2:30 PM Eastern

Featured Presenters

Philip Higgins, MSSW, LICSW
Clinical Social Worker
Director of Palliative Care Outreach
Palliative Care Service
Dana Farber/Brigham & Women’s Cancer Center
Boston, MA

Jane Knowles, MPH, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker
The Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

About the Presentation

Palliative care social workers face increasing demands to identify patients and families most in need of specialist-level psychosocial intervention. At the same time, there are greater opportunities for formal and informal social work peer education on issues pertaining to care of the seriously ill. This session will help palliative care social workers and their colleagues to identify several models of collaboration, triage and education for times when team census is high, as well as strategies for effective case finding and outreach when census is low.

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Learning Objectives

• Distinguish between specialist and generalist social work skill sets in palliative care, identifying those triggers that highlight the need for specialist-level intervention
• Describe several forms of collaboration and/or triage between palliative care social work and unit– or team-based social workers
• Identify several models of peer education on issues pertaining to psychosocial aspects of palliative care, opportunities for case finding and outreach afforded by the palliative care social worker’s unique skill set

Who Should Attend?

Social workers; physicians; nurses; administrators and others involved in operating a palliative care program.

Call Details

• $89 per phone line or $99 for one phone line plus the audio conference CD-ROM (contains MP3 audio file and presentation PDF file)
  (Attention: New York State hospitals, and hospices with an established hospital palliative care program partnership, are eligible to register at no cost. To apply, when registering use coupon code NYGrant)
• Payment is online by credit card only
• PowerPoint presentations accompany each audio conference
• You will have the opportunity to participate in a live Q&A session with the presenters
• Continue the discussion following the audio conference and post your questions and comments on CAPCconnect™ Forum in the “Social Workers in Palliative Care Settings” topic!
• We encourage you to invite your colleagues to listen with you

Any questions? Contact Margaret Schutz at (212) 201-2671 or margaret.schutz@mssm.edu