Welcome!

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About the book

Our intention with this book is to create a space to pause, to reflect, to be in community. To give space to the very human interactions that stay with us, the ones that keep us up at night, that push or challenge us, and at times change who we are as clinicians and human beings. To express gratitude for lessons received, to mourn lives lost, to acknowledge where we may have been complicit, to see each other and those we show up to support through the door of humanity. All without judgement. 

Edited by Terry Altilio, Anne Kelemen, Vickie Leff, Arika Patneaude

Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions: socialworkeditors@gmail.com

About the Reflections Video Series

Terry, Anne & Vickie have recorded 5 episode conversations about inequities.  Using videos from a variety of sources, we get together and discuss the content, hoping to deepen the conversation, and inform our practice.  We hope you will join us. 

Some of the inspiring speakers and authors we talk about include:

Dr. Keith Wailoo

Dr. Joy DeGruy

Dr. Cleary-Perry

John Oliver

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dr. Erwin Nichols

Reconstructing Palliative Care Practice: A Beginning

A Different Type of Workshop

This 10 hour workshop is designed for any provider working in serious illness care. Designed to be in-person the goal is shared learning in the setting of protected time to begin to reconstruct palliative care practice, questioning some primary constructs and working to develop a more comprehensive and interesting model of care.

Intersectionality

We cover topics such as Family, Team, Assessment/Intervention, Pain, Ethics and Language understanding the intersectionality of this content – the horizontal and vertical planes of practice that create a tapestry of experience which joins patients, families, and staff.

Concepts

Here are a just a few of the concepts that are interwoven throughout the workshop:

• Metaphors
• Structural Competence
• Delegitimization
• Structure and Stewardship
• Response Shift
• Disrupted Relational Difficulty
• Continuum of Decision-Making Capacity

Faculty

Terry Altilio & Vickie Leff are the faculty for the workshop.

Contact us:

info@seriousillnessconversations.org

The book is available for purchase on Amazon.com. Here is the link taking you to the book site.

We offer discount rates for bulk orders of the book. Plus shipping.

10 - 25 copies = $18 per copy

26-50 copies = $14 per copy

Over 50 copies = $12 per copy.

Email us with your order request: 

socialworkeditors@gmail.com