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MJHS Live Webinar: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF TRAUMA ON HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS FACING THE END OF LIFE: EXAMINING THE PAST TO IMPROVE PRESENT CARE

September 9, 2020 @ 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Speakers:
Toby Weiss, MSOD
Director of Cultural Sensitivity and Jewish Programming
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care

Paul Radensky, Ph.D.
Senior Director for Education
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

Toby Levy
Holocaust Survivor

Irit Felsen, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist

Purpose: The goal of this webinar is to educate professionals who work with Holocaust survivors and other trauma survivors to recognize and respond to post-traumatic stress symptoms in Holocaust survivors, Second-Generation survivors, and family members of other trauma victims. Participants will become better informed about delivery of person-centered, trauma-informed care at the end of life.

Objectives:

  1. Discuss the historical background leading up to the Holocaust and gain insight into the firsthand experience of a Holocaust survivor
  2. Identify clinical presentations of post-traumatic symptoms in elderly patients, and how they differ from the clinical presentation in younger trauma-exposed individuals
  3. Discuss the interaction between normative processes of aging and a history of traumatic experiences in older individuals, and how these interactions complicate adaptation to aging, to illness, and to end-of-life issues
  4. Recognize characteristics of patients identified by studies of the neuroscience of social cognitions to put certain individuals at risk for nonconscious, unintentional dehumanization by healthcare providers
  5. Recognize signs of your own unintentional reactions to patients and develop specific pragmatic and self-regulating strategies to counter reactions and ensure empathic, humane care for elderly trauma-survivor patients

Target Audience: Registered nurses, registered nurses with a specialty in palliative care/hospice, advanced practice nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers, and allied health professionals.

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https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/registration/?key=5836087182810534924

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