Wellness for Healthcare Workers

Find Your Path to Health and Happiness

Stress is a very common problem all of us face daily. All of us have difficulties sleeping, inability to focus, and inability to find peace in our lives. We go about our lives busy without appreciating and actually living each day to the fullest with true quality of life. The goal of this workshop is to understand how we can rewire our brain using different techniques related to mindfulness that can improve one to truly live and love life everyday.

Demystifying Research for Translation into Practice

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Making Spiritual Care a Routine Part of Care for People with Serious Illness: Recommendations from a JAMA Systematic Review

In July 2022 JAMA published a systematic review of over 300 high-quality articles about religion/spirituality and serious illness (Balboni et al., 2022). Based on this review a panel of experts recommended that healthcare organizations “routinely incorporate spiritual care into the medical care of patients with serious illness.” In this presentation Dr. Fitchett will review some of the research that contributed to this and other recommendations and discuss their implications for our care of patients with serious illness and their loved ones.

Toward an Equitable Future for HAPC: Transforming Education for Future Generations of Palliative Experts

Abstract not available at this time.

Children, Youth and Young Adults as Caregivers: Changing our Perception of Caregiving in the US

Common perceptions of caregiving in the U.S. assumes caregivers are primarily middle aged or older adults. Yet, the reality is quite different. Caregivers include children, youth, and young adults – those with the fewest supports and the least attention paid yet provide the same care as their older adult counterparts. This presentation explores the experiences of caregivers across the age continuum, highlights gaps in programming, and discusses the need for expanded caregiver policy in the U.S.

The Importance of Psychosocial Spiritual Healing in Healthcare: Development of the NIH HEALS, A Tool to Measure Healing

During the course of diagnosis or treatment, some patients with a life-threatening illness can experience increased and positive psychological, social, and spiritual changes irrespective of their disease outcome, a process known as healing. Assessment of the degree of psycho-social-spiritual healing in the face of stressful or even life-threatening circumstances can provide important information for interventions aimed at enhanced coping and quality of life. In particular, assessment of healing in palliative medicine, which is concerned with the relief of physical, psychological, social and spiritual pain and suffering is of paramount importance.  This lecture will review the different studies done to develop the NIH -HEALS,  a tool to measure healing and its use in a psilocybin intervention trial.