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Al Henager, CPSP Clinical Chaplain, is attending the 2008 national conference of the Association of Professional Chaplains in Pittsburgh, March 6 -13. He is sending updates about the conference especially regarding CPSP. He is calling his reports "Blogging from the Spot."
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Greeting again from Pittsburgh! I cannot tell you the amount of interest I am seeing in CPSP from chaplains here at the APC conference. It is only Sunday, and we have almost run out of brochures already. Luckily, we had 1000 flyers printed just before I left. These match the display and have www.CPSP.org listed for more information.
Today, Sunday, I am to co-present in a 90-minute workshop. Dr. Reed Thompson, Medical Director for the Palliative Care Service at UAMS Medical Center, where I serve as Staff Chaplain, is joining me today to present "Transforming Death into Healing at the End of Life."
Often in the medical community, death is seen as the “ultimate failure.” Drawing on the discipline of palliative care and the traditions of the hospice movement, this workshop tries to equip chaplains with strategies for transforming the dying process into one of “healing” for patients, for their families, and for the medical staff. Goals of the workshop are to identify and explain the four domains of care at the end of life, to engage in six strategies of care to persons at the end of life, and to articulate what the concept of “dying healed” means.
The picture above shows Dr. Thompson and myself presenting the workshop. Also, for those who attended the workshop, I am attaching the PowerPoint presentation for them to download. Of course, anyone who wants the presentation may download it as well.
Download file: Transforming Death into Healing at the End of Life
Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at March 11, 2008 4:37 PM
